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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nd-scapes in Cuba. The town is situated ten miles inland on the Sagua River. NiPE Bay is the finest harbor on the north coast. There is no bar; thechart shows 198 to 210 feet in mid channel between )*klayari and Ramonpoints, which mark the entrance from the sea. The slopes of CareneroPoint just within the mouth of the harbor and the opposite shores arecovered with miles of banana plantations, and a higher elevation glowswith the vivid green of alfalfa fields. The bay opens before us like aninland sea; it is ten miles between shores from east to west, and eightmiles from north to south. The channel carries deep water clear up toCorojal Bay in the northwest corner, where on Corojal Point, theterminus of the Cuba Railroad, Sir William Van Horn has located themodel town of Antilla. One would go far to find a more beautiful site,or one of more generous possibilities and richer promise. From Corojal theeye takes in the broad sweep of bay and range of mountains in the i6o THE STANDARD GUIDE.
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GIBARA HOUSES. distance. High up on the face of one of them a waterfall catches thelight and shines like a silver mirror. There is an expansiveness aboutNipe, and a grandeur of scenery which impress one unlike and beyondany other in Cuba. The country all about is ferlile. Orange groves and banana plantationsline the shores of the bay. JMayari on the Mayari River, which emptiesinto the bay on the east, is famed for its fine tobacco. There are ex-tensive sugar plantations near Antilla; an immense sugar mill is amongthe projected enterprises; cattle ranches and truck farms are others.Vegetables grow here the year around; sweet potatoes (boniatos) onceplanted, establish themselves and grow indefinitely; tomatoes run wild.Nipe lies three degrees below Havana, but it is one day nearer the NewYork vegetable market. The bay was at one time selected as a rendezvousfor the United Slates troops, and Sampson cleared the harbor of Spanishships and sunken mines. Near the western shore at the mouth

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