26117: Corbett (reply) Re: 26109: Wilcken: Massacre River

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

> From Bob Corbett

In the book: NORTHERN HAITI:  LAND, LAND USE, AND SETTLEMENT:  A GEOGRAPHICAL
INVESTIGATON OF THE DEPARTMENT DU NORD, by Harold A. Wood (Toronto:
University of Torono Press, 1963), there is this tiny bit about the 
Massacre River:

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Although almost all streams have some stretches of gravel along their banks
where they descend to the plains, gravel trains of mappable cx ent were found
only on the six largest rivers of the north, the Borgne, Port Margot, Limbé,
Grande, Trou and Massacre. In the first five the train is a long narrow strip
following the river. That of the Massacre has a different shape, due to the
fact that for most of its lower course that stream flows over an emerged plain
into which it is incised. The gravel is not deposited until the stream reaches
the low ground of the former lagoon north of Ounamenthe, and here it is laid
down in a broad wedge-shaped fan.

P. 34.

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Only one other occurance of the name is in the index, and it is just in a
list of the rivers.