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Scientific American, Vol. 78, No. 16 (1898) (1898)

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t is gives the old: fort an attractive and castellated appear- since the war, when the Dry Tortugas obtained a some- ance. The writer well recalls standing here at the out- really an atoll, cut by a maze of deep blue channels what unenviable reputation by being used as a mili- tary prison. break of… … creditable to termaster- the govern- General Meigs ment that has was one, sup- expended mil- posed that they lions upon it. were to be cap- But now in- tured. The dications point vessel proved, to the belief however, to be that the old a transport fort will be re- loaded with habilitated, guns and…

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