| South Side. | |||||
| Manzanilla. | Trinidad. | St. Jago de Cuba. | Cienfuegos. | Santa Cruz. | |
| Sugar (boxes) | 115 | 69,656 | 31,298 | 59,215 | 198 |
| Coffee (arrobas) | 3,609 | 548,432 | 128 | ||
| Molasses (hhds.) | 1,475 | 26,175 | 857 | 14,160 | 997 |
| Rum (pipes) | 60 | 554 | 379 | 181 | |
| Tobacco (lbs.) | 315,570 | 1,208,536 | 5,000 | 2,669 | |
| Cigars (thousands) | 542 | 399 | 4,575 | 41 | 155 |
| Copper ore (lbs.) | 571,826 | ||||
Universities, Schools, etc.—Besides the Royal University at Havana, there are several other learned institutes, such as the Royal Seminary of San Carlos y San Ambrosio, founded in 1773; a seminary for girls, founded in 1691; a free school for sculpture and painting, which dates from 1818; a free mercantile school, and some private seminaries, to which we have before referred. The Royal Economical Society of Havana, formerly called the Patriotic Society, was established in 1793, and is divided into three principal sections, on education, agriculture, commerce and popular industry; a department of history has been added. Several eminent and talented men have given eclat to this institution.
The Medical School was organized in 1842.
The means of general education are very narrow and inadequate. No report on the state of education in the island has been published since 1836. At that time, there were two hundred and ten schools for white, and thirty-one for colored children. In 1842, the public funds for educational purposes were reduced from thirty-two thousand to eight thousand dollars. Nueva Filipina, in a rich tobacco-growing district, with a population of thirty thousand souls, had but one school for forty pupils, a few years since.
Charitable Institutions, Hospitals, etc.—There are several charitable institutions in Havana, with ample funds and well managed. Such are the Casa Real de Beneficencia, the Hospital of San Lazaro and the Foundling Hospital,—Casa Real de Maternidad. In other parts of the island, there are eighteen hospitals, located in its chief towns.
Railroads.—The first railroad built in Cuba was that from Havana to Guines, forty-five miles in length, completed and opened in 1839. In 1848, there were two hundred and eighty-five miles of railroads on the island, and the capital invested in them has been computed at between five and six millions of dollars.
Climate.—The diversity of surface gives rise to considerable variation in temperature. On the highest mountain ridges, at four thousand feet above the level of the sea, ice is sometimes formed in mid winter, but snow is unknown.
The mean temperature of the hottest months (July and August) is about 83° Fahrenheit. The coldest months are January and December.