The Cul-de-Sac plain. All the sugar works of the plain are thrown down by the earthquake.

All the sugar works of the plain of the Cul-de-Sac were thrown down; and the Grande Rivière that crosses the plain, after lying dry for sixteen hours through the effect of the earthquake, saw its waters suddenly return and overflow with prodigious violence. The shock, issuing from the deep caverns of the mountain of La Selle, had traveled from East to West. The place we call the Gouffre, at the source of the rivers of the Cul-de-Sac and of Léogane, was the center of the earthquake; several times during the day underground detonations had been heard coming from that spot. For fifteen days there were about a hundred shocks a day.