HAVANA. 
The landfall for ships making the port of Havana is the Tetas de 
Managua, two conical hills 732 feet high, which rise inland south of the 
city. Then is seen the tower of Morro light; and on nearer approach 
the dark mass of Morro Castle comes into view on the left of the mouth 
of the harbor, with La Punta on the right, and the low-lying town 
stretching along the crescent shore of the Gulf. The view is novel and 
attractive. Within a few hundred feet from the shore the dark blue of 
the sea changes to a hue of pale green, which makes an effective fore¬ 
ground for the town with its houses gaily painted in tints of pinks and 
yellows and browns, and blue and green, and white, and the dark red of 
the Spanish tiled roofs; beyond rise the green hills, and above is a sky 
intensely blue. It is all very bright and highly colored and charming, 
whether we see it in the tinted air of the early morning or in the full 
blaze of the noonday sun. It is one of many brilliant panoramas we 
shall find in Cuba. 
The harbor entrance is not more than 350 to 400 yards wide. We pass 
close under the Morro, and see beyond it the extensive fortifications 
of Cabana crowning the heights opposite the city. On the right we may 
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