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 . y wall ofmasonry, 60 feet high and 250 feetwide at the top. The water is car-ried under the river in an in-verted siphon consisting of twoheavy iron pipes in a masonry tun-nel, and thence flows by gravity in an underground aqueduct six miles to the Palatino Reservoir in the suburbs of Cerro, and from the reservoir is distributed through the city, and to Regla, Casa Blanca and Cabana across the bay. The daily supply is 40,000,000 gall
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 . y wall ofmasonry, 60 feet high and 250 feetwide at the top. The water is car-ried under the river in an in-verted siphon consisting of twoheavy iron pipes in a masonry tun-nel, and thence flows by gravity in an underground aqueduct six miles to the Palatino Reservoir in the suburbs of Cerro, and from the reservoir is distributed through the city, and to Regla, Casa Blanca and Cabana across the bay. The daily supply is 40,000,000 gallons of pure water, which is free from all organic matter, but is somewhat hard because of the limestone in solution. The aqueduct, con-structed at a cost of $5,030,000, is named after Albear, the distin-guished Cuban engineer, who planned and built it, and to whose memory there is a monument in Monserrate Plaza. (Page 52.) Before the construction of the Albear Aqueduct, the water was brought through an open ditch, which succeeded another open ditch, or Zanja, which was built in 1592, so that for 300 years Havana has received its abundant lechero— 86 THE STANDARD GUIDE. water supply from the Almen-dares River. As an illustrationof the tremendous rainfall whichoccurs at certain seasons of theyear, it may be noted that theAlmendares at Vento has beenknown to rise 24 feet above thenormal level. In Havana it is the custom tobuy household supplies for theday only; and in addition to themarket trade there is a largetraffic in vegetables and fruits,carried on by hucksters andstreet venders. In the early morn-ing the roads leading to the cityare filled with countrymen (mon-teros) bringing in the products ofthe farms, laden on horses anddonkeys in large panniers. Notinfrequently the animals are intrains, the leading horse beingridden, the second one tied to thetail of the first, the third to thetail of the second, and so on forten or a dozen, with a dog at-tached to the tail o
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