Crossword-Solution: ARTIBONITE 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They were removing to their estate of Pongaudin, on the shores of the bay of Gonaves, a little to the north of the junction of the Artibonite with the sea; but instead of travelling straight and fast, they intended to make a three days' journey of what might have been accomplished in less than two--partly for the sake of the pleasure of the excursion, and partly to introduce their friends from Europe to some of the beauties of the most beautiful island in the world.

There are the troops of the Rhine--troops that have conquered a fairer river than our Artibonite, storming the castles on her steeps, and crowning themselves from her vineyards.

The one chosen this day was his friend Raymond's cacao-plantation, Le Zephyr, in the Mornes du Chaos--among the mountains which retired above the light bank of the Artibonite.

Before noon, L'Ouverture, with Placide riding by his side, and followed by some officers, who were themselves followed by a few soldiers, was among the heights which commanded the plain of the Artibonite on one side, and on the other the valleys which lay between their party and the Gros Morne.

Before he went, he pointed out to Vincent, and his own family, a station, on a steep at some distance in the rear of the house, whence they might discern, with a good glass, the road which wound through the plain of the Artibonite, within two miles of the Plateaux, and up towards Plaisance to the north.