340 TRINIDAD. 



Next to the Mairoa, and within a range of three miles, came in 

 succession, the following water-courses: Bell's creek, the Poui, 

 the Cunapure, arid its tributary, the Guarapiche the Carib name 

 of this latter river induces me to admit the existence of bitumen 

 in the neighbourhood. The Cunapure corresponds pretty well, 

 in position, to the Moura of Mallet. Two and a half miles from 

 the Cunapure, 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 Mairoa, 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 

 Cascarudura, 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 savannahs, 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 savannah 

 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 Guataro, and 

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

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

 the basin of the Guataro 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 from the 

 south-south-west to the north-north-east, as proved by the fact 

 that all the water-courses and mainly the Carapa and the 

 Caratal have their course in the latter direction, and that the 

 swamps predominate towards the north, and the dry land towards 



