Cuba

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

The largest of the West India Islands, 700 m. long and from 27 m. to 290 m. in breadth; belonged to Spain, but is now under the protection of the United States; is traversed from E. to W. by a range of mountains wooded to the summit; abounds in forests—ebony, cedar, mahogany, &c.; soil very fertile; exports sugar and tobacco; principal town, Havana.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in pagan mythology, was the tutelary goddess of sleepers, especially of children. Cuba, an early Saxon presbyter, attested a charter of archbishop Ethelheard, A.D. 805.