[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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in the shallow valley which [8] debouches at the Porte d' Enfer. A roadway is maintained thro' the mangroves by cutting away trees and lopping off branches but many stumps have been to hinder passage left on the road, and there are numerous water holes one to even two feet deep in the dry season through which the carriage splash must pass on its journey - 28 B The Porte d' Enfer is a shallow V-shaped cove in the northeastern coast shoreline of Grande Terre. It and the shallow valley leading to it from the interior are on a fault zone. The fault is marked in the interior three mile of the island by a long, low, east- ward facing fault scarp. This is