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ST. AUGUSTINE.


 The site of St. Augustine is a fiat, sandy, narrow pen-
insula, formed by the Matanzas River on the east and the
St. Sebastian on the south and west. It is separated from
the Atlantic Ocean by Anastasia Island, which lies directly
in front of the harbor, and for miles around it is encom-
passed by a tangled undergrowth of palmetto- scrub and
other bushep.. From Jacksonville it is about thirty miles
distant in a southeasterly direction, and it is about forty
miles south of the mouth of the St. John's River.
 The very streets of St. Augustine are romantic and
characteristic, being crooked and narrow-seldom more
than ten to twenty feet in width -and all paved with
shells. The older houses are built mostly of coquina (or
shell-stone, quarried on Anastasia Island), and the prevail-
ing style of architecture is very quaint and ancient, the


verandas frequently
most touching each


principal streets rut
Charlotte, St. Georg
running at right ang


Ilypolita,


Treasury,


hanging out
other across


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over the streets and al-
the narrow way. The


imng parallel to the nver are
e's, Spanish, and Tolomato.
les (east and west) are Orangg,
King, Bridge, and St. Francis.


Street is the main business street, and commands a


may,
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Bay
fine


view of the harbor, Anastasia Island, and the ocean. St.
George's is the Fifth Avenue of the place, and contains
some of the finest buildings and residences. At the head
of this street stands the famous City Gate, once a part
the old Spanish wall that extended across the penu
from shore to shore, and protected the city on th
The last traces of the wall have long since va ut
the City Gate is in a fair state of preservjn n, 1 with
its lofty ornamented towers and sentry-v ta pictu-
resque and imposing structure.
 Near the center of the city is t de la tu-
 cion, comprising about an- acre .- d. inclo with a
 substantial fence. In the ce the Plaz stands a
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