The Canary Islands, are appropriate
for 27 in the Atlantic ocean northwest from the African continent between that.
Degree of latitude, 37 minutes, and that 29. Degree of latitude, 25 minutes north,
a little more than four degrees of the turning circle of the cancer far away,
that by La Havanna goes -und between that to 13. Degree of longitude, 20 minutes,
and that 18. Degree of longitude, 10 minutes, west of Greenwich.
The islands
owe their all year round pleasant climate, their subtropical character and their
eternal spring to this situation, because the differences between the different
seasons are very small. In addition they became by their situation in the Atlantic
and in the proximity of the African coast nearly inevitably stations of the maritime
traffic between Europe, Africa and America.
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