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The People of Hayti. 
INDUSTRY. 
The chief manufactures of Hayti are syrup, rum, and taflia, 
which is a kind of unclarified rum, much used by the lower 
people. The manufacture of brown sugar has recently been 
commenced. Measures are said to be in progress for the revival 
of the manufacture of white sugar, which, since the days of the 
French, has never been a flourishing branch of industry in 
Hayti. Haytian syrup is of the finest quality, as it contains 
all the juice, not the mere refuse of the juice of the sugarcane. 
A variety of preserves are exported. The cities furnish brick¬ 
layers, masons, cabinet-makers, carpenters, saddlers, tailors, 
cordwainers, coopers, tanners that made good sole leather, 
blacksmiths, goldsmiths, tinsmiths, wheelwrights, and hatters. 
There are not enough hatters to supply the demand, and, in¬ 
deed, first-rate, industrious workmen, in any trade, would soon 
be able to establish themselves. There are no saw-mills in 
operation in Hayti, ho brick-yards, no shingle machines, very 
few ploughs, and none of our improved agricultural implements. 
The country offers a large field for their introduction, by per¬ 
sons who will themselves employ them. 
The Haytian women excel in all kinds of needlework, in 
embroidery in silk and cotton, and in the manufacture of wax 
flowers and fruits. 
The Haytian coasters, which are from ten to^ fifty tons’ 
burthen, are all built by native workmen. The ropes generally 
used in the country districts are made of the leaves of the 
latanier; but fine ropes are also made from the leaves of the 
great aloe. For domestic purposes water crouches are manu¬ 
factured of unglazed ware ; and oil; for burning, is extracted 
from the nut of the Palma-Christi. This is what we call hot- 
drawn castor oil. The fine arts have several professors at the 
capital; and the Palace has many of the best works of Haytian 
painters. The bust of President Geffrard, to be found at the 
Bureau in Boston, will give an idea of the ability of the Hay¬ 
tian artists in that department of the fine arts. 
