Church review . ty the southern charmgrows fast. Its thirteen streets arelaid out at right angles and with per-fect system; never was a city whereinit is so easy to find ones way. Drift-ing through its streets, its 30,000 in-habitants are a constantly changingkaleidoscope of humanity. Quaint ! and are municipal buildings, beauti-ful and well built; overlooking theharbor is the palace, Santa Catalina,the finest building on the island,capable of being a palace indeed; and,near them all, that other church, richin historic interest, which GeneralBrooke seized to prevent its sale bySpain, so keepin
Church review . ty the southern charmgrows fast. Its thirteen streets arelaid out at right angles and with per-fect system; never was a city whereinit is so easy to find ones way. Drift-ing through its streets, its 30,000 in-habitants are a constantly changingkaleidoscope of humanity. Quaint ! and are municipal buildings, beauti-ful and well built; overlooking theharbor is the palace, Santa Catalina,the finest building on the island,capable of being a palace indeed; and,near them all, that other church, richin historic interest, which GeneralBrooke seized to prevent its sale bySpain, so keeping a considerable sumof money on the island. Gently upward from the waters edgethe city slopes, spreading to right andleft, to where, upon the heights, twinforts guard the approaches by land andsea and overlook the harbor. One, ElMorro, already seen towering abovethe entrance to the port from the landside, is a long, low line, separated fromthe city by a grassy plane. The other,San Cristobal, gray and grim, faces. SAN CRISTOBAL, SAN JUAX, PORTO RICO. been interrupted by the protocol,never would have been taken, at leastnot without a loss incalculable in timeand men, such is its natural strengthand the problem of difficulty it pre-sents. Many times in its history hasthe Merrimac incident of Santiagobeen enacted, and the narrow andawkward entrance to its harborblocked to invaders by a ship sunk inihe channel. These tactics have stoodi1 in good stead, and in the summer of1898 a series of wrecks were sunk soas to make a barrier impassable—wrecks, some of them still visible,through which a ship must thread itsway, slowly and with care, to itsanchorage in the placid bay beyond. Most strange is seems, lying in theharbor, strange and yet most gratify-ing, to see from the forts and build- shops line the way; brown babies rollunder foot; nimble ponies trot swiftlyby with the easy rocking gait, andgreat bullocks slowly draw their loads,unconscious alike of their power andthat finer cattl
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