Description: "The West India Islands, which are principally the summits of a submarine mountain-chain, which sweeps in a curve from a Yucatan to the eastern termination of the Venezuela coast-range. The Bahama Islands belonging clearly by situation and structure to the low plains of the Floridian Peninsula." (— Brewer, 1890)
Source: William H. Brewer Ph.,D., Warren's New Physical Geography (Philadelphia, PA: Cowperthwait and Company, 1890) 41
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman. |
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