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THE ESSIQUIBO. 



along the foot-tracks of th 



Indians, through 



forests, into the far-off interior. 



These forests commence in 

 many parts close to the ocean, 

 spreading often for thousands 

 of squaie miles, broken some- 

 times l»3^ swamps, and at 

 others by wide savannahs, open 

 spaces covered with grasses, 

 and here and there clumps of 

 trees. Even the sand-hills of 

 moderate height borderino- the 

 Atlantic are clothed by the 

 superb vegetation of the tropics, 



the forest extending to, and 

 even chmbing up the sides of the 

 Rocky Mountains. Vast tim- 

 ber trees, the purple and green 

 heart, the stately mora, the lo- 

 cust-tree, raise their heads above 



THK MAXOnOVE-TREE. 



