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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