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Ortoire — not only because it is the first important stream which 

 occurs on the track, but its position corresponds better to the 

 range of that river as marked down on Mallet's map than 

 to that of his Moura. Next to the Guanapure, and within a 

 range of three miles, came in succession the following water- 

 courses : Pure, the Poui, the Guarapiche, and the Guanapure — the 

 Carib name Guarapiche induces me to admit the existence of 

 bitumen in the neighbourhood. The Guanapure corresponds 

 pretty well, in position, to the Moura of Mallet. Two and a 

 half miles from the Guanapure flows the Caranache; about 

 three miles from the Caranache, the Anapo ; one mile and a half 

 further eastward, the Agua-Clara ; and, for about three miles, a 

 series of smaller ravines or rivulets. Except the Guanapure, 

 which has a gravelly bed, all these streams are muddy. For 

 about six miles, a number of small brooks have their course to 

 the northward, and a few to the southward, the road there 

 following the dividing range. Among the former are the 

 Guatecaro, about five miles, and the Cascaradura, about one mile 

 and a half from the shore. 



Mr. d'Abadie having received new orders to connect the 

 Tamana with the Mayaro track, left the latter about eighteen 

 miles from Monkey Town, and, after a run of little more than 

 four miles in a northerly direction, met the former between the 

 two first savannas, at that tract of rich land already mentioned. 

 He encountered several water-courses, having an easterly direc- 

 tion, a swamp, and a tract of land partly level and partly waving, 

 with a forest of moras ; the ground bordering on the savanna 

 was, in general, soft, and intersected with swamps. At a later 

 period Mr. d'Abadie opened another track, about four miles from 

 the beach, connecting the Mayaro path directly with the ward of 

 Mayaro. 



I have entered into these details, in order to indicate the real 

 disposition of that extensive tract of low country stretching sea- 

 ward of the Cocal, between the Lebranche and the Ortoire, and 

 I have come to the following conclusions : From Tamana, a ridge 

 extends in a south-easterly direction towards Point Radix, divid- 

 ing the basin of the Ortoire from that of the Nariva; there 

 exists no water communication between the two rivers — a fact 

 which had already been ascertained by Captain Columbine and 

 by Mr. J. Carter. The natural slope of the country is evidently 



