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Vacant Lands. 
landing-places, this section has easy access to Port de Paix and 
Cape Haytian. 
ARRONDISSEMENT OE LIMBE. 
In all the department of the north there are great numbers 
of demesne lands in the hands of squatters, or of farmers who do 
not pay their rent. The conditions of their leases ought to be 
fulfilled by them. This they should be made to do under pen¬ 
alty of cancelling their leases. 
This is an inconvenience which we often meet with in this 
district. 
There is much waste land here, the climate is mild, and the 
lands very fertile. The sympathies of the emigrant will be 
attracted by its smiling and picturesque aspect, as those of the 
traveller invariably are. 
Plaisance (the very name indicates the advantages to be en¬ 
joyed here) rejoices in a climate of imcomparable mildness, and 
of very great fertility. Though at a considerable distance from 
any commercial centre, it is, by its position, the principal mar¬ 
ket between the Cape and Gonaives, and has the means of 
taking its produce to the most favorable of these two markets. 
ARRONBISSEMENT OE CAPE HAYTIAN. 
The Government lands are more parcelled out here than in 
many other localities; this is always the case in the neighborhood 
of large towns. There is, notwithstanding, a considerable quantity 
of demesne land. Six miles from the Cape, at Morne Rouge, 
there are seven hundred and fifty acres of unoccupied land. 
This virgin soil, of great fertility, is watered by numerous 
springs. Independently of being near the capital of the dis¬ 
trict, they are near the landing-place of Acul du Nord. 
The fertility of the plain of the Cape is proverbial. 
The sections of Limonade and Quartier-Morin, are justly re¬ 
nowned for their fertility. In spite of the heat of our climate, 
the cultivation of the sugarcane succeeds admirably without 
irrigation. 
