Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . CHAPTER XII. THE city of Vera Cruz is situated on a sand plain,and lies nearly on a level with the ocean. Com-mencing at tlie mole, a wall built of rock and cementfifteen or twenty feet high, extends entirely around thecity to the waters edge at the opposite side, being likean immense horse-shoe in shape. A mole is built alongthe entire front, and at each end of it is built a strongfort, where heavy guns are mounted. The wall aroundthe city is about three feet thick, and has port-lioles atintervals, for infautiy to lire
Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . CHAPTER XII. THE city of Vera Cruz is situated on a sand plain,and lies nearly on a level with the ocean. Com-mencing at tlie mole, a wall built of rock and cementfifteen or twenty feet high, extends entirely around thecity to the waters edge at the opposite side, being likean immense horse-shoe in shape. A mole is built alongthe entire front, and at each end of it is built a strongfort, where heavy guns are mounted. The wall aroundthe city is about three feet thick, and has port-lioles atintervals, for infautiy to lire through. There are onlythree gates, one of which opens to the north-west, beingthe road to Mexico. Another gate opens to the south-west, the road leading to the city of Orizaba, and thesouth-east gate is the entrance for all the vast tradefrom the country about Tabasco, from which disti-ictcomes the greatest variety of tropical fruits, as well ascacao-nuts, from which chocolate is made in largequantities and shipped from Vera Cruz. All the gates are k(»pt locked at ni
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