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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANTILLES

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 126 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTILLES , a
term
  of somewhat doubtful origin, now generally used, especially by foreign writers, as synonymous with the expression " West India Islands." Like " Brazil," it
dates
  from a period anterior to the discovery of the New World,. " Antilia," as stated above, being one of those mysterious lands, which figured on the medieval charts sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous
land
  of greater or lesser extent, constantly fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canaries and
East
  India. But it came at last to be identified with the
land
  discovered by
Columbus
 . Later, when this was found to consist of a vast archipelago enclosing the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of
Mexico
 , Antilia assumed its present plural form, Antilles, which was collectively applied to the whole of this archipelago.
A distinction is made between the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and
Porto
  Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, covering the
remainder
  of the islands.


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