The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . ;8 The Standard when one follows the guides torch from the dark rooms into thelast gloomy pent recess, some such tale of luckless victim entombedalive harmonizes with the flickering torch and dimly seen smoke-begrimed encompassing walls. Facing the court on tlie nortli was the chapel i 15 . Its walls and ceiling and altarand niches are brightwith mould and mossand lichen; strange mu-tations have come totown and fort since theroom was
The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . ;8 The Standard when one follows the guides torch from the dark rooms into thelast gloomy pent recess, some such tale of luckless victim entombedalive harmonizes with the flickering torch and dimly seen smoke-begrimed encompassing walls. Facing the court on tlie nortli was the chapel i 15 . Its walls and ceiling and altarand niches are brightwith mould and mossand lichen; strange mu-tations have come totown and fort since theroom was dismantled ofits ornaments. Thechapel was used forreligious services aslate as the civil 1875 it was con-ve/ted into a school-room for the WesternIndians who were con-fined here. Ihe elab-orate portico of thechapel was the mostpretentious bit of archi-tecture in the fort ;but has so crumbledaway that its form canno longer be traced. Inthe wall outside, abovethe chapel door, theFrench astronomers,who came here in 1879to observe the transit of \enus, have left a marble tablet in com-memoration of the visit. The inscrijition reads: Plaque commem-
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