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Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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beauty. All the zonesare around and before you, from Greenland to Abyssinia. The harbor is empty of shipping ; only four or five vessels lie onits dangerous sea. The famous castle, San Juan dUlloa, is a large,round fortress, of a dingy yellow. A castle impregnable, it is said,except to assault, which was never attacked that it was not taken.Cortez professed to expend thirteen millions upon it; and Charlesthe Fifth, once calling for his glass, and looking through it, west-ward, was asked what he was looking for. San Juan dUlloa, hereplied. I have spent so much on it, that it seems to me I oughtto see it standing out on the western sky. We anchor off the costly folly, and are greeted by officials andfriends. Boats soon put us on the mole, and we are in the sea-portof the United States of Mexico. This city consists of sixty acres, be they more or less, inclosedwith a begrimed wall, from ten to twenty feet in height. BostonCommon is not far from the size of Vera Cruz ; its burned district
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STREETS AND ARCADES OF VERA CRUZ. 4? considerably larger. It has one principal street running backfrom the shore a single block. A horse railway passes down thisCade Centrale once a half hour or so, and for a real, or twelve anda half cents, takes you the near a mile that street extends. But ittakes no one, as ail who have money have no desire to leave theblock or two about the plaza; and all who are obliged to go fromcentre to circumference have no money. So the Spanish Yankeefails of success in this enterprise. One street runs parallel with the Centrale the entire length ofthe city, and two shorter ones fill out the arc that the rear wallmakes. Eight or ten cross these at right angles. That is all of theTrue Cross, viewed geographically. Numerically, it has fifteen thou-sand inhabitants, of whom over one thousand are foreigners, andonly about five thousand can read or write. The Indian popula-tion predominates in numbers, and the Spanish in wealth and in-fluence, though the Mexican

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