The daily crescent

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And gaze on the bill« of my own native land,

I'll brush from ray pate cheek the tear drops tiint roll.

And wake for the c, only, the herp of my aoal.

Columbia, Tain.

Haytli

Some «sixteen hundred miles due South from

thi* city, nearly the same distance eastward from

Vera Cruz, and a little South of East of Cuba,

stretches the island of Hayti, the second in size

and importance of the West Indies, the first of any

consequence discovered and colonized by Colum

bus, and in climate and natural resources one of

the most delightful and alluring portions of the

earth. Its surface is mainly rugged, rising often

into lofty mountains, though several spacious plains

diversify it but its hills are of exuberant fertility,

even to their tops. Its soil is a deep, vegetable

mould, r«st«ng on a shelly limestone, it is profusely

watered by lakes, streams and rivers—four of the

rivers being large and navigable—while^ts harbors

are numerous and rarely sur passed. Its low lands

are deadly to European constitutions, but not to

African, while its hills are unsurpassed in salu

brity. It embosoms mine.s of gold s silver, copper,

salt and iroi, none of which have been worked for

many yeare* The gold had become unproductive

before its working was abandoned, but may not

be confined to the localities explored, while the

other minerals named yet exist in profusion. A

great part of the island is still covered with dense

primitive forests of mahogany, logwood, ironwood,

cedars, etc. Its rivers and bays yield an abundant

supply of turtle, shellfish, etc.

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The daily crescent. (1851). [New Orleans, La.], 1851-01-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015378/1851-01-09/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily crescent, 1851-01-09.