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numerous trading places, every creek and inlet having its little group of houses 

 half concealed by forest growths. Ça Ira, at the point where a chain of reefs 

 connects the coast with Gonave Island, is the outlet of the important town of 

 Léoganc, the Yaguana of the aborigines, which was the capital of Haiti before 

 Port-au-Prince. Faither on follow Grand-Goave and Petit-Goûve, the latter, 

 despite its name, the larger and more commercial of the two. 



Farther west lies the flourishing town of Miragoâne, and the less important 

 seaports of Nipi^es, Anse-à-Veau, Petit- Trou, and Baraderes. A cutting of about 

 200 yards would suffice to connect the spacious Baraderes Bay with the Cayemites 

 roadstead across the low intervening promontory. Beyond Bec-à-Marsouin and 

 the two islets of Grand and Petite Cayeraite, Pestel and Corail serve as outports of 

 Jérémie, the chief town in the peninsula, but destitute of good anchorage The 



Fig. 198. — South-west Pexixsxjla of Haiti. 

 Scale 1 ■ 2,500,Ck:iO. 



Ltepths. 



to 100 100 to 500 500 to 1,000 1,000 to 2,000 2,000 Fathoms 



Fathoms. Fathoms. Fathoms. Fathoms. and upwards. 



30 Miles. 



surrounding district exports coffee, sjairits, and the best cacao in the island. One 

 of the residences of Jérémie was a family inheritance of Alexander Dumas, that 

 great and prodigal genius whom Michelet called one of the "forces of nature." 



Several small towns occupy the inlets at the very extremity of the peninsula. 

 Such are Trou-Bonhon, les Abricots, Dalmarie, properly Dame-Marie, Anse-d^ Hain- 

 ault, les Trois, that is les Trlandais, so named from some " Irishmen" who settled 

 here in the eighteenth century ; lastly, Tihiiron, under Cape Tiburon (Cabo San 

 Miguel), extreme western headland of the peninsula. 



On the south-west coast, between Tiburon and Abacou Point, the best haven is 

 that of Coteaux. But the whole of this seaboard is exposed to the fviry of the surf, 

 and even Port-Salut, despite its name, offers but a precarious anchorage to shipping. 



