Balée by means of a pont- toon drawbridge. Cultivation comes out a short distance onto the flats bordering the swamps, but not far, since the land is too wet to sup- port it. Brande Terre is at an almost equal sided triangle compris- ing 100 square miles in area. It is roughly speaking an isos- celes triangle lying upon one of its longer sides. Its southern side extends nearly from Cape — nearly due east to Pointe des Chateaux twenty miles. Its windward side stretches another twenty miles from Pointe des Chateaux northwestward to the Grande Vigie. Its western