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which fet along from the fouthward and the coaft of Brafil. 

 That of the Oroonoko is detained, and allowed to fettle near its 

 mouths, by the oppofite iflands of Trinidad, and ftill more by 

 the mountains on the main, which are only feparated from 

 that ifland by the Bocos del Drago. The coaft of Guiana has 

 remained as it were the great eddy or refting-place for the 

 wafliings of great part of South America for ages ; and its own 

 comparatively fmall ftreams have but modified here and there 

 the grand depofit. 



W. LOCHHEAD. 



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