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Show 17 4 TilE LI8El~TY BELL· than one hundred and thirty-four millions of francs, [upwards of twenty-six millions of dollars,] in the amount of provisions which it produced for exportation; and its ports contained a considerable number of ships. As many as six hundred yesscls have been counted at once in tho harbor of Cape flaytion, and fifty in that of Port-dc-paix, one of the most contracted. 13ut, since those terrible catastrophes which were introductory to the liberty and independence of this island, tho great plantations have boon destroyed by fire, tbe ficl<ls laid waste, and tho workmen disorganized aml transformed into soldiers ; it hi obvious, then, that the same result can no longer be obtained. Afterwards, the intestine wars, waged for the purpose of humbling or of maint.aining the pride of chiefs, disputing among themselves the supremacy, dragged, from 1807 to 1820, the car of death and dcv.,la· lion o,•er this beautiful territory, reducing every day its population, both by losses on the field of battle, and by emigration to other countries. The CO)lll EJ:CJ.; 0~' IIA Y'£1. 175 SJJectaclc is yet a ]I' V.m g one . f. formerly stretched out ' or there, where , far as the e vast plantations of yo could reach I sugar-cane with th . ' p umes; where sto d I CJr white o t tosc superb whose smoke asc. 1 d . sugm··lwuses one c mto the ai . ' like columns and h. r m lofty cone· ' ' w ere the measur d thousand male and {i l c song of a. ema c laborers, und , . of the overseer, filled th . CI the Whip e Uir day and . l harsh accents now ~~ 1 mg 1t with ' cxwn< thick forest eye of tho trn.vcll s, where the or sees only ruins a U . , shapeless mixture f n tubbJsiJ, a o walls overthrown stroycd, utensils br k . ' canals de· o en to p!CceQ d on beautiful arches .,. k' . ~, an aqueducts ' ... pea mg WJtnessc of the opulence of I . . . s everywhere co onwl limes. . During tho twenty-five years of tho h JStration of p ·a :l})py admin-resJ ent Boyer fr annually forty J 'lr ' ee labor furnished m •ons [pounds] f had then become th . . o coffee, which e prmCJpal t" 1 in the country C ar ICe of cultivation . acao, cotton, fustic li . :md brazil-wood • gnurnvitro, ' were produced lt greater or less 1 n crnn.tcly in :t c egrce. Logwood has now become |