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covered with mangroves and reeds. The city would 

 then have on the west a triple line of fortifications ; 

 first, outward, the works of Principe and Atares, 

 built upon hills; then the projected moat; and 

 lastly, the old wall, with its curtain, built by 

 Count Santa Clara, at a cost of seven hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. 



The defence of Havana, on the western side, is of 

 the greatest importance, for while the city proper 

 and the southern side of the bay is held, the Mono and 

 Cabana castles are impregnable. The first of these 

 requires a garrison of 800 men, and the second 2,000 

 men for their defence, provisions for which, and 

 reinforcements, should the garrison suffer heavy 

 losses, can be supplied from the city. Several able 

 French engineers have assured me that an enemy 

 should begin by taking the city, and then bombard 

 the Cabana, which is very strong, but whose 

 garrison, shut up in the casemates, could not long 

 resist the sickly climate. The English took the 

 Mono before they had possession of Havana, but at 

 that time, the Cabana, which commands the Mono, 

 and fort Number 4, had not been built. The castles 

 of Principe and Atares, and the battery of Santa 

 Clara, are the most important works on the southern 

 and western sides of the city. 



Population of Havana, including the suburbs. 



