The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Leguanee
Jamaica
View Larger MapDescription of institution: Appears to be a region containing or near Liguanea, Jamaica. Hans Sloane refers to Languanee in a letter from Port Royal, 22 March 1692:
"No. VII. Some more Particulars of the same. — As to the mountains in Leguanee, they fell in several places, and in some very steep; but the steepest mountain that we heard fall, was that at Gallowes, which occasioned much damage. The water in the streets of Port-Royal did not spout up, as you have heard; but in the violent shake the sand cracking and opening, in several places where people stood, they sunk into it; and the water boiled out of the sand, that covered many, and saved others" (Philosophical Transactions, vol. 18 no. 209 (Mar and Apr 1694): 87). URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguanea Other Links: books.google.ca/books?id=V2hFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=Leguanee&source=bl&ots=mil1ugD2P1&sig=fpLdLo7DhaYXN1Ub52RKfoqJqnI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5e4aUJycGe3piQKZ0IGQCw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Leguanee&f=false - Facsimile from Google Books of Sloane's account.