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are everywhere spread out, and which reaeh up to the very tops 
of the mountains, the foliaceous undulations of which exercise 
perpetually a cooling influence on the surrounding torrid atmos¬ 
phere ; whether there be other causes or reasons beside these, 
we do not assert; but we think it rational to conclude that 
all these circumstances, operating incessantly, are the real 
agencies that modify and soften the climate of Hayti, and have 
rendered its temperature milder, less sultry, and more salubrious 
than it is found to be in Cuba or Jamaica during parallel 
seasons. 
A country blessed with all these natural advantages must 
enjoy also great variety of climate and varied degrees of tem¬ 
perature, as regards a residence in the plains and a more or less 
proximity to the seaboard, or a graduated approach to the more 
elevated parts, upwards, towards the higher mountain range. 
Its capacity to produce every kind of vegetable substance that 
can contribute to the comfort of its inhabitants and to the pros¬ 
perity of the state, must be equal to the fecundity and diversity 
of its soil. 
Hayti, rich in all the variety of tropical productions, is well 
adapted, in its elevated situations, to the growth of most all 
those grains and plants that thrive in other latitudes and cooler 
regions. The peach, the apple, strawberries, the raspberry, 
the cauliflower, potatoes, the carrot, the beetrave, the broccoli, 
parsnip, and the asparagus, and other like legume and esculents, 
have all been long ago naturalized in this country, and they 
flourish as vigorously as in Europe or America. 
Besides the multitude of floral families, species, and their 
varieties common to the tropics, the rose, the violet, the pink, 
(Vceillet,) geraniums, diversify and decorate our alpine valleys, 
which are likewise carpeted spontaneously with the clover and 
the daisy, while the oak, the common fir, and exalted pine-tree, 
(pmus sylvestris,) are multiplied into forests whose extent are 
estimated by the leagues of country they cover, and which are 
