Froufi apiece.'] 



Tl.ATK 1. 



KAIETEUR FALL, 

 POTARO RIVER, ESSEQUIBO, BRITISH GUIANA. 



The perpeurtionlar lieiRlit of the fall is 7U feet, or nearly five times tbe liciglit 

 of Niag-ara. The width varies from 350 feet in the dry season to 400 leet lu the 

 rainy season, and the depth of water passing over similarly ranges from a few 

 feet to 20 feet. The river, even in very dry i-eason, has a depth of 35 feet 

 about a quarter of a mile above the fall. The face of the fall is composed of 

 sandstone with a capping of harder conglomerate. 



I'hutu hij C. W. Aiidirson. 



