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Title: The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon E. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN THE YEAR 1692 AND BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD WAS BY ANOTHER SHOCK THROWN INTO THE SEA, AND MIRACULOUSLY SAVED BY SWIMMING UNTIL A BOAT TOOK HIM UP ; HE LIVED MANY YEARS AFTER IN GREAT REPUTATION, BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM, AND MUCH LAMENTED AT HIS DEATH. Port Royal was destroyed by fire in 1703, and again in 1816 ; and in 1722 it was devastated by a hurricane. In front of the officers quarters is a lawn, at each corner of which is a colossal figure-head painted in gaudy colours. One is the figure-head of H.M.S. Aboukir, a former port guardship, wrongly said to represent Lord Nelson. The chief objects of interest are the church and Fort Charles, where Nelson commanded in 1779. The staircase or entrance to what is known as Nelsons Quarter Deck a space on the ramparts adjoining the great hero's quarters — still stands as shown in the illustration. Over the door-way the arms of Nelson are emblazoned on a panel, and on an adjacent wall there is the stirring injunction :
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THE ENTRANCE TO NELSON'S QUARTERS, PORT ROYAL, JAMAICA Nelsons coat-of-arms can be seen painted up over the door JAMAICA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES 183 IN THIS PLACE DWELT HORATIO NELSON YE WHO TREAD HIS FOOTPRINTS REMEMBER HIS GLORY. The fort takes its name from King Charles II. It was commenced in 1662, and rebuilt by Lilly in 1699 after the earthquake. St. Peters Church, built in 1725-26, contains a large number of naval and military monuments, the most striking among which are those to Lieutenant William Stapleton, R.N. (1784), who was killed by the bursting of a cannon at Port Morant, by Roubiliac, and to Captain Augustus James de Crespigny (1825), who served under Nelson at Trafalgar. Port Royal used to be an important naval station, but the dockyard has now been closed and reduced to the position of a cadre after an existence of practically two and a half centuries. The port guardship H.M.S. Urgent was removed in 1903. On the Palisadoes is Gallows Point, now a mangrove-covered promontory, where

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