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| Posted On: | 15-Feb-2006 |
| From: | dkevans [dkevans....edu] |
| Subject: | [roatan] place names correction |
*Folks...I screwed up my settings somehow...this is the way the names should match up. All the best...dke http://www.thejudasbird.com http://www.wfu.edu/~dkevans * > * > WEST to EAST > > _OLD NAMES_ > Pyrats Cove Caulkett's Hole Kemps Hole > Pointsetta or Dixon's Cove English Harbour Port Quarré New French > Harbour Old French Harbour Thomson's Lagoon Coachman's Creek > ------- > _CURRENT NAMES > _Pyrats Cove Coxon's Hole Kemp's Hole > Dixon's Cove Brick Bay Sarah > Key French Harbour > First Bight Second Bight > (or Prigby's > Bay) (or Gibraltar) (or Brig Bay) > > > > > _OLD NAMES_ > Dalrymple's Bay Barnesly's Cove Falmouth > Harbour Welsh's Lagoon Pitt's Lagoon > Casack's Island New Port Royal Fort George Old > Port Royal > > > > (or Fitt's Lagoon?) > ------- > _CURRENT NAMES_ > Neverstain bight Caribe Point Bight Jonesville > Harbour Bowden Bight Oak Ridge Harbour Lime > Key Port Royal Harbour Fort Key Old Port > Royal > > > > > * *Heline, now HELENE (Spanish= Santa Eleña) * > * > > Note: This old map also lists a number of interesting site names that > no longer exist...for example, "William Stadt", which was apparently > the Dutch pirate stronghold just above and between what is today > Neverstain Bight and Caribe Point Bight. If so it would have been > built right after the Spanish (under Francisco Diaz de Pimienta) > destroyed the English Providence Company's venture in 1640, and would > have been itself destroyed by the Spanish about a decade later around > the middle of the 17th Century. > > This e-mail just covers this one map's place names for the South Shore > of Roatán only...I'll get around to the North Side some other > day...hopefully. > > All the best...dke > http://www.thejudasbird.com > http://www.wfu.edu/~dkevans > > * Adventures on Roatan: An exciting tour of the island on DVD http://www.roatanvideo.com To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roatan/ roatan- : | |
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