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“...270 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
Buildings it was designed by Sir Charles Nicholson and
constructed of reinforced concrete. The building com-
prises three floors, and the rooms are arranged round
an open patio, most of them opening on to wide veran-
das. The grounds cover about 177 acres.
The town of Port Royal standing at the extremity
of the spit of sand known as the Palisadoes, which
protects Kingston Harbour, can be reached by motor-
car along the Palisadoes or by motor-launch or boat.
It is of great historic interest, having been the head-
quarters of the buccaneers, and the emporium and mart
of their ill-gotten wealth. Before it was overwhelmed
by an earthquake on June 7th, 1692, it was considered
“ the finest town in the West Indies, and the richest
spot in the universe.”
The rector of the parish describing the disaster
wrote :
Whole streets, with their inhabitants, were swallowed up by
the opening of the earth, which, when shut upon them, squeezed
the people to death, and in...”
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“...can be
visited are the Cathedral and San Pedro Claver. Both
are in a sad state of disrepair ; but it is possible to gauge
from the fabric how handsome these churches must have
been.
The House of Inquisition near the principal square is
now the residence of a merchant who courteously permits
visitors to inspect it. Cartagéna was one of the head-
quarters of the Inquisition in the New World, the others
being at Lima and in Mexico. It is said that the cruel
apparatus of torture is buried in the patio, where several
tall and graceful palms now grow which it would be a...”
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