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It was the first colonist, Juan Ponce de León, who, admiring a bay on the north coast, declared it Puerto Rico (“rich port”).
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.