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thousands of acres of lowland adapted to the cultivation of this 
fruit which finds so ready a sale in the New York market, distant 
less than 1,300 miles, and nearly twenty-four hours nearer than 
is Jamaica, from which so much fruit 1s exported. An added 
Fic. 29. Pinewoods at Marmelade, showing the thick character of the under- 
growth, 
inducement to engage in agriculture is the cheapness of labor, 
laborers being procurable for 20 cents a day, and as many of them 
as are desired. At present only slow steamers touch at Haytian 
