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cios and the Pájaro reef, and was of the same depth and width.
A larger and more sheltered harbor, named Anton Lizardo, was situated a few leagues to the south-east of Vera Cruz,[1] and there appears to be no good reason why the latter was selected, except that the island of San Juan de Ulúa was a favorable spot for the construction of a fortress. No attempt was made to
San Juan de Ulúa.
improve it, and at the close of the eighteenth century it remained in the same condition as when first discovered by Grijalva in 1518.
- ↑ Anton Lizardo was the harbor in which the French fleet anchored in 1838 and the Americans in 1847-1848.
