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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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wnout of the solid rock leads up from the waters edge. Opposite the Morroon the left is La Socapa. Within the harbor in the rear of the Morrois Estrella Point with its Estrella (Star) Battery. Beyond on the left isCayo Smith—Smith Key—a small island which was once captured andheld by the British. It has a little village of red-tiled houses, with achapel surmounting the hill in the center. Hobson sunk the Merrimac offRatones, or Rat Key, seaward of a line from Cayo Smith and ChurrucaPoint opposite. The small island near the opening of the bay was theold magazine for the supply of the ships of the Spanish Navy. On theright shore is the Cieno Reales, the coaling station, beyond which are seenthe summer homes of Santiago merchants; then when we have passedBlanco Battery, the city comes into view. The town is built on a steephillside overlooking the magnificent harbor, and is shut in on all sides bymountains. The bay is six miles in length and three miles wide at thegreatest width. 165
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SANTIAGO. 167 Carriage fares are 20 cents for one or two passengers, 10 cents eachfor more; $1 per hour in the city, $1.50 outside, for carriage holding fourpersons. To Morro Castle and return, $3.50 for one, $4 for hack carryingfour. Military road to top of mountain $5. To San Juan battlefield andEl Caney, one person, $1.50; $2 for hack carrying four. The characteristic which impresses one is the wealth of coloring in whichthe city is arrayed. The houses are painted in all the hues of the rain-bow and glow against the blue sky or amid the embowering palms andvines in an atmosphere of phenomenal brilliancy. Havana and Matanzasare plain, and Camagiiey is dingy compared with Santiago. A typical bitis the Plaza Crombet, the little square on San Tomas street, dedicated tothe memory of Santiago patriots who died in the struggle for freedom; onone side of the square is a house, of which the body color is ultramarineblue; on the other side is the Church, of San Francisco in old rose; inthe p

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