Identifier: standardguide00reyno (find matches)
Title: The standard guide
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: St. Augustine, Fla.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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PLAN OF FORT MARION.From Old St. A ugustine.I, bridge from barbacan to glacis. 2, stairway to barbacanmoat. 4, sally-port 3, bridge over7 (left) guards TJic Standard Guide. 4: fevers; an-d finally, as a sanitary measure, the Spaniards walled it up, and the middleroom (12) as well. They did this in the readiest way by closing the entrance withcoquina masonry. AMien the United States came into possession of the fort theofficers stationed here did not suspect the existence of these disused chambers,although among the residents of the town were men who had knowledge of them,and of their prosaic use as a deposit for rubbish. One of these residents, who wasstill living in iSSS, related to the writer his recollection of the disused powder maga-zine, as he was familiar with it when he was a boy employed at the fort. In 1839 the
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TO-DAY TOUCHINTt HANDS WITH ^ i .-I KK hA S masonry above the middle chamber caved in, and while the engineers were makingrepairs, the closed entrance to the innermost chamber was noticed, and investigationled to its discovery. Refuse and rubbish were found there. The report was givenout—whether at the time or later—that in this rubbish were some bones. From thisinsignificant beginning the myth-makers evolved first the tale that the bones werehuman; then they added a rusty chain and a staple in the wall—a gold ring on oneskeletons finger—instruments of torture—iron cages—a pair of boots—and a SpanishInquisition tale of horror. The guide books of ten years ago were devoted chieflyto the dungeon story. Writers from St. Augustine have rung the changes on it;we quote some of them and by way of comment add a paragraph from Old St.Augustine: 44 The Standard Guide. In one of them (the two chambers) a wooden machine was found, which some supposed mighthave been a rack, and in th

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