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of these not more than four or five are navigable for

any considerable distance from their mouths except

by small, flat-bottomed boats. Jamaica boasts the

loftiest and grandest mountains, its celebrated Blue-

Mountain Peak lifting its head, almost continually

enveloped in fleecy clonds, more than 5,000 feet above

the level of the sea; Hayti the finest rivers, among

which are the Yaque, the Yuna, and the Artibonite,

all splendid streams; and Cuba the most fertile

plains. The coasts on the South side of the islands

"are geherally low and swampy, and on the North

side rocky and bold; but everywhere they present

numerous indentations, affording many snug havens,

and several capacious and secure harbors, some of

which are not surpassed by any of the finest harbors

n other parts of the world, there being four or five

which the combined navies of Europe might ride

in safety.

PRODUCTIONS AND RESOURCES,

In no part of the world is there a greater variety

of valuable vegetable prodactions than is to be

found in the West Indies. First in the list of those

possessing a commercial importance stands the sugar

sane, for the cultivation of which fully nine-tenths

of all the low. lying lands is admirably adapted.

Next comes coffee, the plant flourishing in all the

hilly and mountainous districts, and yielding large

crops annually of the valuable berry. Pimento or

Allspice—indigenous to the Island of Jamaica alone

~may be had in abundance simply for the trouble of

gathering, the tree growing wild in most parts of the

country. Ginger, too, of the finest quality, is pro-

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New-York tribune. (1869). New York [N.Y.], 1869-05-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1869-05-01/ed-1/?sp=11

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1869-05-01.