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Geography of Hayti. 
That of Arcakaie, situated like an amphitheatre along the 
seaboard, extends about 12 miles from East to West, by about 
1800 feet in its greatest breadth, from North to South. The 
sugar here produced is of excellent quality, though the 
quantity is small. J 
The plain of Leogane measures about 17 miles in its great¬ 
est length from East to West, and scarcely 7 miles in breadth 
from North to South. It yields sugar of great beauty. 
Finally, that of Cages offers a surface of about 117 square j 
miles. Here, as in the plain of Cul de Sac, the different 
streams are usefully employed in watering the sugarcane,— 
a production which offers such considerable reward to the 
laborious workmen. 
RIVERS. 
Few countries are as well watered as Hayti. This advan¬ 
tage is owing, as we have already seen, to the mountains 
which feed the numerous rivers that nature has spread over ' 
all this fortunate Island. But the departments of the East 
are much more favored, in this respect, than the others, and 
other rivers are also much more considerable. 
The longest river is the Artibonite, which the Indians called 
Ha'ibonico. Its entire length is 145 miles. It flows in a 
straight line from the Cibao, where it rises. Before it reaches 
this sea, its volume is increased by a multitude of other 
rivers, such as the Guayamuco, the is Mo Canas, the Fer-ar 
Cheval, etc. It frequently inundates the plain which bears 
its name, and by this means produces the same effect as the 
Nile in Egypt. 
The other principal rivers are the Tuna and the great 
Yaque, in the department of the North-East y the Ozama, the 
Isabela, the Macoris, the Soco, the Quiabon, the Bomana, 
the Jayna, the little Yaque, and the Neyba, in the depart¬ 
ment of the South-East; the rivers of Cages, Cavaillon, 
Jeremie, and Nippes, in the department of the South; those 
of Jacmel, Leogane, and Cul de Sac, in the department of 
