San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 194
Medieval shipping in the harbor of St. Augustine in 1678. Slietches and documents made by Spaniards at the time, copiesof which are extant, show the place surrounded by high sand hills which 300 years of wind have blown away. … A wooden fort built at St. Augustine about 1678—taken from a Spanish sketch. Copies of a document are also extant inwhich the Spanish governor pleaded with the king of Spain to send him money with which to build an all-stone fort, sayingthat they could not fire off the cannon in the wooden fort…
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