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“...Mocha (left) and
I ^tensive orange groves (right), the train runs through
the valley of the San Juan river, the great Pan of Matan-
zas (1,000 feet) being the most prominent feature.
Matanzas (population 36,000), the second city and sea-
port of Cuba, is situated on the south and east side of
a spacious harbour. Its streets are well laid out and
it has several handsome plazas adorned with decorative
trees and flowers. A feature of the town is a leafy
boulevard known as the Paseo. The valley of the Yu-
muri, which was praised by Humboldt, is best seen from
the Hermitage of Montserrate and from the summit of
the opposite hill, which is reached through a residential
quarter known as Versailles. The Yumuri Valley is a
vast natural amphitheatre five or six miles in diameter
with precipitous sides except towards the sea, where the
river finds an outlet through the vertical walls of a
canon. It was the scene of a massacre of the Arawaks
m 1511. Hence the names Matanzas (slaughtering) and
Yumuri, said...”
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