ABSTRACT
The city is situated on an elevation of 100 feet (actually, closer to 200) above the sea; a promenade three quarters of a mile long, terminated at one end by the exchange, and at the other by the palace of the governors, is laid out in front along the margin of the sea, bounded on one side by an abundant precipice, and adorned with trees, shrubs, flowers, statues, and busts, like the garden of Tuilleries, the Borghese Villa of the Villa Recali at Naples. On the other side is a long range of hotels built of stone, some of them with façades after the best models of Italy.
