Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Santa Maria, one of the three Columbus caravels, left Cadiz, Spain, in February, 1893, andcrossing the ocean alone reached Chicago the following July. She was an exact reproduction of theflagship in which Columbus sailed to the New World. Her dimensions were as follows: Length atwater line, seventy-one feet three inches; beam, tv/enty-five feet eight inches; depth of hold, twelve feetfive inches. She carried a crew of fifty-two

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