SANTIAGO. 
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SAN JUAN HILL. 
On a hill overlooking the town is the model school house built by General 
Wood at a cost of $50,000, of which $20,000 was contributed by Mr. Henry 
L. Higginson, of Boston, Mass. The building is of hard limestone, and 
is the finest of its kind in Cuba. It is interesting to note that the very 
first school in America was established in Santiago in 1522, in which year 
by a bull of Adrian VI., the Scholasteria was founded here for giving 
instruction in Latin. The hill on which the school is situated commands 
an interesting view of harbor, city and mountain ranges. 
In the cemetery is a monument of Dr. Antomarchi, the physician who 
attended Napoleon in his last illness at St. Helena. Shortly after the death 
of Napoleon, he set out on a tour of the world to find an only brother, 
and chance threw them together in the streets of Santiago. Electing to 
remain here, Dr. Antomarchi, who was of generous heart and charitable 
to the poor, won the affection of the people, and when he died of yellow 
fever in 1826, the monument was erected by public subscription. 
Good roads in the vicinity afford many interesting drives to Boniato, 
El Cristo, San Juan battlefield, El Caney, San Luis, and other points. 
The Boniato military road ascends an elevation whence is spread before 
one the grand amphitheatre of Santiago Bay, with the sea beyond; and 
away on the south may be seen the loom of the Blue Mountains of 
Jamaica. 
The country about the city is closely associated with the campaigns of 
the Spanish-American War. Morro Castle commands the harbor entrance. 
