1864-10-23
Devèze ships 37 small forks of wood to Le Cap
Haitian
By the last two ships 64 forks were shipped, measuring 1,382 feet 5 inches, that is 216 feet per fork. The Kerlaw had received on board 50,876 pounds of yellow wood. Mr Devèze had shipped to le Cap on 23 October 1864. 37 small forks measuring 1,247 feet 11 inches, that is 34 feet per fork.
Rouzier tells this under the entry TORTUE (la).
Source · p. t. IV, p. 205
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 205