Desira'de, a small island of the West Indies, belonging to France, and lying 4 miles E. of Guadeloupe, with an area of 10 sq. m., and a population of about 1600, engaged in fishery and the cultivation of cotton.
Desira'de
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 774
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