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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. 1857 Excerpt: ...2 or 8 miles of land. The livers, too, deposit at their mouths large quantities of mud and sand, and are thus inaccessible to vessels of large size. Extending from low watermark to a distance of 5 or 6 miles, is a tract of rich alluvial soil of recent formation. This is succeeded by a flat narrow reef of sand running exactly parallel with the present line of coast. Here remains of stranded vessels, and anchors eaten through with rust, have been found, indicating, that within a comparatively recent period, it had been washed by the waves of the Atlantic. Running parallel to this reef, at irregular distances, varying from 10 to 20 miles, is a second and higher range, composed of coarse white sand; and which, at a period more remote, probably formed the sea limit. The principal river of British Guiana is the Essequibo, which rises in Sierra Acarai, and after a course of at least 600 miles, discharges itself into the ocean by an estuary 20 miles in width, in N. latitude 7, W. longitude 58 40'. In the estuary of the Essequibo are a group of beautiful islands, partially cultivated, the principal of which are Varken, or Hog Island, about 21 miles in length, by 8 in breadth; Wakenaam and Leguan, each about 12 miles by 8, and Tiger Island about half that size. The entrance is difficult and dangerous, even for vessels of small size, on account of the banks of mud and sand. Its course lies through forests of the most gigantic vegetation. The staple productions of the colony are sugar, coffee, and cotton. From an official table of the exports of British Guiana, from 1826 to 1851, we find that in 1827, 15,904 bales of cotton were exported; but from that period this cultivation gradually gave place to sugar, and in 1844 ceases to appear in the table as an article of expo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130375213
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130375218
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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