tería de La Reina, (Queen's Battery), and also intersecting Calzada del Monte about half a mile south of Paseo de Tacon. The coach tariff for one or two persons anywhere in the city east of Belascoaín street, is a peseta, Spanish silver twenty-cent piece. The Calzada de San Lázaro runs westerly, along the shore of the Gulf, from La Punta to the Queen's Battery, a distance of about a mile. This street is also called Calzada Ancha del Norte. In the old portion of the city the streets are only about twenty-two feet wide, and the sidewalks from eighteen inches to two feet in width. In the newer portion they are thirty-three feet wide with five-foot sidewalks. The streets in the old part are mostly paved with large square stones. Underlying the northern part of the newer portion of the city, within a few feet of its surface, there are tertiary and quarternary rock formations, which easily absorb liquids. Along the harbor and in the southern portion of the city, generally, these rock formations are of a chalky character, and are much less permeable to liquids. Hence, sinks and other receptacles often overflow. Such are the main fea tures of Havana, as the city is generally known. The limits of Havana were fixed by ordinance bearing date August 23, 1879, and are to-day the legal boundaries of the city. Without attempting to describe them in detail, a brief statement respecting them will here be given. The Gulf of Mexico, as before stated, forms the northern boundary, and the harbor or Bay of Havana, except as hereinafter noted, forms a part of its eastern boundary. Ascending the Martín Perez River, which flows into the arm of the harbor called Ensenada de Guasabacoa, to the bridge over that river at the Calzada de Guanabacoa, the line runs an irregular course to the point where the Calzadas of Luyanó and Guanabacoa cross; again pursuing a devious course, the place where the Güines road crosses Río Hondo marks a point in the boundary line. The Güines road is followed from this point to its intersection with Camino Viejo de Güines, a distance of nearly seven miles southeast of Plaza de Armas. The village of Calvario lies seven miles nearly south of Plaza de Armas, and is within the limits of the city of Havana. Where the main road of Managua crosses the Almendares, or Chorrera River, more than eight miles southeast of Plaza de Armas, is another point in the boundary line, which latter follows the river west and north to Villate y Aguas Claras, thus including the city of Arroyo Naranjo, seven miles southwest of Plaza de Armas, within the limits of Havana. Again pursuing an irregular course, leaving the river on the east, the boundary line includes the town of Puentes Grandes, about four and a half miles southwest of Plaza de Armas. The line crosses the Almendares River once or twice after leaving Puentes Grandes and ends at the mouth of the Almendares River and the Gulf of Mexico. It will be seen that the cities of Carmelo, Vedado, Cerro, Jesús del Monte, Tulipán, La Ciénaga and Puentes Grandes, usually spoken of as suburbs of Havana, are really within its boundaries. The caserio, or village, of Casa Blanca, with its territory is a part of Havana. Casa Blanca's territory includes the fortifications of La Cabaña and Morro Castle; from the latter its boundary line runs eastward along the shore to Playa de Chino, a distance of perhaps three-fourths of a mile, and from this place in a circular direction, terminating at the Bay of Triscornía a little east of Casa Blanca. Regla, a city across the Bay of Havana, though often spoken of as a part of Havana, lies outside of the limits of the latter. The following are some of the more notable lomas, or hills, within the city limits, as last defined: Loma de Mazo, also called the "Key Hill," it being considered the most important strategic position in the vicinity of Havana. It is nearly four miles southwest of Plaza de Armas. This hill is about 800 feet long in an east and west direction, and its highest point is 200 feet above sea level. A mile north of this hill is that of Jesús del Monte, 220 feet high. At the western extremity of the Bay is Loma de Atarés, III feet in height. The ledge of rock on which Morro Castle is situated is probably about 25 feet in height at its extremity, but rises to a height of 75 feet a quarter of a mile to the southeast. At one point the ridge on which La Cabaña is situated reaches a height of 157 feet. The hill of San Diego, east of Cabaña is 190 feet above sea level. Príncipe Hill is 150 feet high. THE HARBOR. The channel, between the extreme points of Morro and La Punta, is a quarter of a mile in width, narrowing a little farther on to one thousand feet, then widening to a quarter of a mile, and is about a mile in length. This part of the harbor is sometimes called the River of Havana. The general direction of the harbor, usually designated on maps as the Bay of Havana, from the termination of the channel is southwest. Its average width is a mile, but in some places its width is a mile and a half. Its eastern and southern shore is indented with three small bays, ensenadas, the Bay of Regla, of Guasabacoa and of Atarés. The harbor, from Morro to |