The image that the foreigners beheld 100 years ago remains much the same today, with the cannons by the mouth of the river still there to speak of the brutality of the Sino-French War.
一百多年前，外籍人士對淡水第一眼的印象，與今天差異並不大，靠近河口的滬尾砲台則訴說著中法戰爭的慘烈。