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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Position of San Domingo. (search)
in a southeasterly direction, finally terminating at Cape Maysi. What is known as the "Windward Passage," a strait which connects the Atlantic ocean with the Caribbean Sea, separates Cuba from Hayti; the distance between Cape Maysi, the eastern terminus of the former island, and Cape St. Nicholas, the western terminus of the lattr the most mountainous, constitutes the Republic of Dominica, of which San Domingo is the capital. The Mona Passage, another entrance from the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea, separates on that side Hayti from the island of Porto Rico, the strait that divides them being about the same breadth as the Windward Passage--twenty-five milRico, both of which are Spanish dependencies, and any Power holding these three islands would be in possession of the ocean gateways to the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and all the States of Central America. We have been the more particular in describing the geographical situation of these islands, and their relative pos