. A guide to Florida . threetimes. The following is a brief summary of the principalplaces of business and of interest to visitors in Hotels.—The St. Augustine Hotel, which has justbeen finished, is a large, commodious building, and hasfirst rate accommodations (see advertisement, page 22),Florida House, Magnolia House (see advertisement), anda number of good boarding houses. St. Augustine hastelegraphic communication with Jacksonville. Old TOWBI Wall—Built by the Spaniards twocenturies ago. It protected the town on its northern side,and extended across the peninsula from shore t
. A guide to Florida . threetimes. The following is a brief summary of the principalplaces of business and of interest to visitors in Hotels.—The St. Augustine Hotel, which has justbeen finished, is a large, commodious building, and hasfirst rate accommodations (see advertisement, page 22),Florida House, Magnolia House (see advertisement), anda number of good boarding houses. St. Augustine hastelegraphic communication with Jacksonville. Old TOWBI Wall—Built by the Spaniards twocenturies ago. It protected the town on its northern side,and extended across the peninsula from shore to gateway of the old wall still stands, and is a pictur- 74 GUIDE TO Florida. esque and imposing ruin, with ornamented lofty towers■and loop-holed sentry-boxes. The ditch is clearlymarked. Fort inarion—The old Spanish fort once calledSan Juan. It was begun in 1620, and built principally bythe forced labor of Indian slaves who toiled on it for onehundred years. It stands on the sea front, at the upper. OuperBroa. Interior of Fort Marion. end of the town, and its material is almost wholly theCoquina rock, quarried on Anastasia Island. Its castel-lated battlements, says Rev. Mr. Trumbull, its formid-able bastions with their frowning guns, its lofty and im-posing sally-port surmounted by the Spanish arms, its port-cullis, moat, drawbridge, its circular and ornate sentry-boxes, its commanding outlook tower, and its stained andmoss-grown massive walls—impress the external observer GUIDE TO FLORID^.. 75 as a relic of the distant past; while a ramble through itsheavy casemates, its cfrumbling Roman chapel, with elab-orate portico and inner altar and holy-water niches, itsdark passages, gloomy vaults, and more recently-discovereddungeons, bring you ready credence of its many tradi-tions of inquisitorial tortures. A visit to the fort bymoonlight also is recommended. Cathedral.—The old Catholic cathedral, with itsquaint Moorish belfry, its chime of four bells in sepa
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