Espiritu Santo, (1) a small and swampy maritime province of Brazil (121), lying on the N. border of Rio de Janeiro; does some trade in timber, cotton, coffee, and sugar; Victoria is the capital; (2) a town (32) in central Cuba; (3) the largest of the New Hebrides (q.v.) (20); the climate is unhealthy, but the soil fertile.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Espinel, Vincent de * Esprit des Lois