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Champagne is the fifth communal section of Borgne, Nord, Haiti.
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Champagne. Fifth rural section of the municipality of Borgne. rural school.
Among other curious natural riches that this section has is a source of natural ink placed in a cave, known since the time of the French. The ink thickens easily; adding water, you get almost perpetual ink and good quality that behaves very well on paper. The authorities of the commune, and even of the district, write their official documents with this ink they draw from the source by dames-jeannes. The deposit is nothing but a ferruginous material. Mr. Edmond Roumain, a Haitian chemist, and Dr. Scolt, of the Faculty of Medicine of Port-au-Prince, on a scientific excursion they did in the North on behalf of the government, carried a small amount as a sample of the visit, that they have made to this curious source.
Surprisingly, incredible and afiligant, this ink that Haitians have the trouble of drawing in the country itself, is not very widespread, due to the means of transport being very difficult and expensive. In Haiti, folk generally use the ink made abroad. The Mancel River has its source in the melaliferous mountains of Champagne and Bompère. The Champagne trails are mountainous and strewn with switchbacks, narrow and rocky. In the rainy season, the mud is sticky. The soil is schistous clay, where aluminum predominates and iron, sometimes having a beautiful tint offering a red color. The heights contain pink quartz, and crystallized porphyry; limestones and silicas abound towards the face of the mountain facing Borgne. There must be gold, the presence of quartz being rich and the coffee grows beautifully tropics and all vegetables. See The oranges of Mount Champagne are bigger. The mountain is inhabited by birds here called musicégay and enjoy their harmonious notes.
There is the habitation called Poudre de sang ("Blood Powder").