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Vacant Lands. 
ARRONDISSEMENT OE MIREBALAIS. 
The Government owns, in this arrondissement, a great amount 
of land. The mildness of the climate, and the fertility of the 
soil, offer very great advantages. Several proprietors offer 
large properties for sale. 
This district would seem to he very favorable to men of our 
race who, from a long residence in the cold countries of North 
America, would find it difficult to accustom themselves to the 
much greater heat of the lowlands. The distance from any 
seaport would certainly be an inconvenience for the embarkation 
of produce, but the high road to Portr-au-Prince, by way of the 
plain of Cul-de-Sae, is generally pretty good. 
ARRONDISSEMENT OE LASCAHOBAS. 
Al l that I have said of Mirebalais applies to this arrondisse¬ 
ment. There is here a large quantity of land, both public and 
private property. 
The land here is of prodigious fertility, and fit for all kinds 
of culture. Lascahobas has also vast deposits of coal, and if 
the Artibonite could be made navigable, this part of the country 
could attain to a high degree of prosperity. 
ARRONDISSEMENT OE DESSALINES. 
At a short distance from the village of Dessalines, the State 
owns from two thousand to twenty-five hundred acres of land, or 
more. Near to St. Mark, and placed in much the same circum¬ 
stances, what has been said of the one applies to the other. As 
it is situated more in the interior, it maybe considered as a con¬ 
tinuation of the arrondissement of St. ^ark. There are several 
questions which would require profound study,—such as the 
regulation of the water supply, the cultivation of different 
savannahs, etc. 
ARRONDISSEMENT OE GONAIVES. 
This arrondissement must be joined to the two preceding 
ones, to complete a group, the unity of which is scarcely broken 
by the administrative divisions. In the centre, and forming a 
vast quadrilateral, is a magnificent basin (or hollow) watered by 
