Providence

Contra Hisp. 7. 358 (twice), 365. Provident i a (Catelina). (See also Tortuga.) Providence, or Old Providence, an island off the Mosquito now belonging to Colombia. It was occupied by the English Providence Island Company from 1629 to 1641. The Coast, name Catelina, instead of Providence, appears on Blaeu’s map A small island north of Providence is of Insulae America nae. now called Catalina. Provincia. Lit. Rich. 7. 339. Provence, an old province of southeastern France. Pru ia (Boru ia). Hist. Brit. (5)5. 202; Lit. Senat. (15) 7. 200; Decl. Poland 8. 462, 466; Moscovia (4) 8. 488. Now the largest division of Germany. According to Ortelius the region bordering on the Baltic, and included between the Vistula and the Niemen. 253