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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: east, and is compelled to deposit its sediment, not at right angles with the river, and parallel with the coast, but in a direction determined by the combined action of river, wind, and sea- current. Little or no fresh water passes through the harbor. The harbor is exposed somewhat to the winds from the north, and is not deep enough for large vessels. In value it is intermediate between those of Santa Marta and Cartagena, but might be made far more useful than either, were the Canal of 1'iha opened, as it will yet be. CHAPTER IV. CAKTAGENA. Entrance to a splendid Harbor.?A walled City and a finished City.?Consul Sanchez.?Mule Travel.?La Popa.?Turbaco.?Arjona.?The Dique.?Ma- hates.?How the Duke did a Yankee.?Calamar.?A Dance. The navigator who sails from Sabanilla to Cartagena has both wind and current in his favor. As he nears its white walls, he wonders to have finished his voyage so soon. He has not finished it. He must pass the town entirely to reach Boca Grande, the large mouth of the harbor. This he can not enter, for it was closed up by a costly wall completed in 1795, because the entrance was too near the city and too wide. This entrance they now would gladly free from obstructions, but the commerce of Cartagena is at present so small, that the measure, though often proposed, has never been attempted. Still you must proceed to the west, and, passing the Isle of Tierra Bomba, you take in the pilot, and enter the Boca Chica, little mouth; and, passing between two forts, you are in the harbor of Cartagena. Facilis est descensus: it was easy sailing clown from opposite Cartagena to Boca Chica; but now the city is out of sight, and you have the wind against you, and you find the voyage longer than you thought a little before. You anchor at an inconvenient dista...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217514224
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217514227
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 395 gr


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