San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 194
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… … Modern St. Augustine. These buildings are there but have been slightly modified in juxtaposition for the sake of pictorialcomposition. The old-fashioned carriages operated by colored cabbies wearing stove-pipe hats, appear in large numbersand help preserve the quaint aspect of the oldest city in…
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