Report on the Camp Perrin mine dated and published

In May 1860 Messrs. Eug. Nau, Panayoti and S. Toussaint were charged by the Government with going to visit the coal mine of Camp Perrin. Their report, dated 15 June, was published in the Moniteur Haitien of the 30th of the same month. The samples of coal gathered at the surface are ordinarily of a blackish color shading into gray; they have a lamellar structure, and bear on their surface traces of oxides and sulfides of iron. On some of them the imprint of oysters and of fossil corals can be seen. Thrown into the fire, they ignite only at a high temperature; they burn with a white flame, giving off a strong smell of bitumen. This coal is gathered at the top of the banks of the ravine du Sud (see that entry) at the water intake, on the habitation Audibert, where it shows at ground level. But the coals are the richer the greater the depth from which they come; they show the sheen of velvet and the iridescent colors proper to the rich coals of the best quality. Thrown into the fire, they burn easily, giving a flame like that given by lighting gas, and spreading a smell of bitumen.

Rouzier tells this under the entry CAMP PERRIN [le].