WANDERINGS IN 



The roac i f or horses runs parallel to the river, 



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but it extends a very little way, and even ends 



before the cultivation of the plantations ceases. 



The only mode then that remains, is to proceed 

 by water ; and when you come to the high lands, 

 you may make your way through the forest on 

 foot, or continue your route on the river. 



Face of the After passing the third island in the river 



country. 



Demerara, there are few plantations to be seen, 

 and those not joining on to one another, but 

 separated by large tracts of wood. 



The Loo is the last where the sugar-cane is 

 growing. The greater part of its negroes have 

 just been ordered to another estate ; and ere a 

 few months shall have elapsed, all signs of culti- 

 vation will be lost in underwood. 



Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia's 

 Waard, solitary and abandoned ! and after passing 

 these there is not a ruin to inform the traveller, 

 that either coffee or sugar have ever been cul- 

 tivated. 



From Amelia's Waard, an unbroken range of 

 forest covers each bank of the river, saving here 

 and there where a hut discovers itself, inhabited 

 by free people of colour, with a rood or two of 

 bared ground about it ; or where the wood-cutter 

 has erected himself a dwelling, and cleared a few 

 acres for pasturage. Sometimes you see level 

 ground on each side of you, for two or three 

 hours at a stretch ; at other times, a gently sloping 



