The pines of this island are magnificent.

It has also extensive plains, honey, and a great variety of birds and fruits.

It has many metal mines, and a population innumerable.
"Espanola is a wonderful island, with mountains, groves, plains, and the country generally beautiful and rich for planting and sowing, for rearing sheep and cattle of all kinds, and ready for towns and cities.

The harbours must be seen to be appreciated; rivers are plentiful and large and of excellent water; the greater part of them contain gold.

There is a great difference between the trees, fruits, and herbs of this island and those of Juana.