Geographical Pathology Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...it. No streams rise on it, except where it lies on an impervious bed of clay. This soil forms the Plaines des Roches, in Riviere du Rempart district, and is also met with in the lower parts of Flacq. It is somewhat extensively met with at Nouvelle Decouverte, Quartier Militaire, and Camp de Masque. Sandy soil is met with, but not in extensive areas, all along the coast. The largest area of such soil lies between Canonnier's Point and Choisy Sugar Mills. Mixed with disintegrated coral and a certain amount of decayed vegetable matter, and sometimes covered with rotting sea-weed, it is probably not destitute of fertility if it were watered. On a soil of this nature (as the first Fever Inquiry Commission reports) was situated the Rifle Camp at Petite Riviere, and the military post of Black River, at which two stations not a man escaped from the effects of the malarious fever during the epidemy. RIVERS, FORESTS, MARSHES. The streams rising in the northern and level districts are the Terre Rouge, Calebasses, and Pamplemousses Rivers--all of small size, and falling into the sea on the north-west coast. The Riviere du Rempart runs into the sea on the north-east coast. The Grand River N.W. rises in the centre of the island, and falls into the sea a little to the south-west of Port Louis. The southern Riviere du Rempart and the Tamarin Rivers arise in the table-land formed by the Black River Mountains, and run into the sea on the south-west coast. Riviere Noire and similar smaller streams, rising in the gorges of the Black River Hills, run a short course to the sea. On the east the most important rivers are the north Riviere du Poste and Grand River S.E., both rising in the high lands of the central portion of the island to the north. The Riviere des Creoles, the Riv...