. Book of the Royal blue . TO THE FIELDS. CONCIIITA ESTATE. Santa Clara Province, and the Cuban Cen-tral Railway, which embraces all importance in Santa Clara Province,excepting twenty-five miles of line on thesouth coast which connects Sancti Spirituswith its seaport of Tunas de Zaza. Santi-ago Province has only about sixty miles ofrailroad all told, and yet this sixty miles comprises four distinct lines. There is asmall road from Santiago de Cuba northinto the interior as far as San Luis, with abranch to Sabanilla; the fiuantanamo roadrunning from Caimanera, through Cuan-tana
. Book of the Royal blue . TO THE FIELDS. CONCIIITA ESTATE. Santa Clara Province, and the Cuban Cen-tral Railway, which embraces all importance in Santa Clara Province,excepting twenty-five miles of line on thesouth coast which connects Sancti Spirituswith its seaport of Tunas de Zaza. Santi-ago Province has only about sixty miles ofrailroad all told, and yet this sixty miles comprises four distinct lines. There is asmall road from Santiago de Cuba northinto the interior as far as San Luis, with abranch to Sabanilla; the fiuantanamo roadrunning from Caimanera, through Cuan-tanamo to Soledad, and a twenty mile linefrom Gibara, the principal seaport on thenorth coast of Santiago, south to the. M.)Ki.\ lUiCllA. SliclUlMi l;AUI;Eli U! K ll>l SE rnr. of cntA. interior tdwn of linlmiin. Iufrto iriiu-i|iiProvince has two lines; one running; fromthe capital to Xuevitas, its seaport, on tlienorth coast, and another which crosses theisland from sea to sea, following the MoronTrocha. Your correspondent has crossedthis last isolated military line from theCaribbean Sea to the llahama Channel. Itis a most interestinji ride. The distanceis kilometers, or about forty-three miles, and the country is perfectlyflat. There is a handsome and well con-structed block house every kilometer, withtwo, three and sometimes four smallerblock houses or earth fortifications lietween. (The word is i)ron()unced tro-cha and nottro-ka). In sjiite of the many block housesand constantly running armored trains, andthe vigilance of the Spanish soldiers, thistrocha was crossed several times. Yourcorrespondent had the good fortune to rideover the Moron Tnicha railroad with Ceneral
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