An Old Sailor's Yarns. Ames Nathaniel
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At the distance of two or three miles from the usual anchorage, and forming an excellent leading mark for the bay, is Pedro Blanco, or the White Rock, of two hundred feet height, perfectly precipitous and inaccessible, and resembling a huge tower, rising abruptly from the sea.
Taken altogether, the bay of St. Blas forms a very beautiful prospect, with the Andes in the back ground, which, with their
"Meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd,
Look from their throne of clouds o'er half the world;"
its white sand beach, fading gradually away to the south and east, its town roosting on its barren rock, and indistinctly seen; its low lands covered with a luxuriant growth of lime and other trees; and lastly, by way of seasoning, its moschetoes and sand-flies.
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