FOURTH AND FIFTH VOLUMES.
TURK's ISLAND, properly fo called, the largest of a numerous group, liés on the great bank of that name, off the coaft of Spanish Hifpaniola, about thirty leagues north of Isabella Bay, is a league or two over, and is low, fandy, and barren, without a drop of fresh water. Thofe iflands were neither discovered, or ever poffeffed by the French. The British have, for many years, been in ufe to gather falt upon them, particularly the Bermudians, who go thither in March, and continue during the dry feason, living on coarse fare, and in huts covered with leaves. The New Englanders go with floops and fchooners in great numbers, and purchase falt from those Bermudians and others, for their fisheries.
JUCATAN, or Yucatan, one of the feven provinces of the Audience of Mexico. It is a peninfula, furrounded on the weft and north by the Gulph of Mexico, between the Bay of Campeachy on the S. W. and that of Honduras on the S. E. having the little province of Tabafco on the S. W. and that of Vera Paz, in the Audience of Guatimala, on the S. where it is joined to the continent by an ifthmus not forty leagues broad. It extends from lat. 17° to 21° 30′, and from long. 91° to 95°.
The Falkland Islands are fituated near the Straits of Magellan they were first discovered by Sir John Hawkins in 1594. Their importance may be gathered, from the judicious remarks which the author of Anfon's Voyage has on them. He observes, that all future expeditions to the South Seas muft run confiderable risk of proving abortive, whilft, in our paffage thither, we are under the