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JOURNEY. 



FIRST them from the opening seed on the surface, 



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sending a downward shoot, to the loftiest and 

 the largest trees, rising up and blooming in wild 

 luxuriance ; some side by side, others separate ; 

 some curved and knotty, others straight as lances ; 

 all, in beautiful gradation, fulfilling the mandates 

 they had received from heaven, and though con- 

 demned to die, still never failing to keep up their 

 species till time shall be no more. 



Reader, canst thou not be induced to dedicate 

 a few months to the good of the public, and 

 examine with thy scientific eye the productions 

 which the vast and well-stored colony of Deme- 

 rara presents to thee ? 



What an immense range of forest is there from 

 the rock Saba to the great fall ! and what an un- 

 interrupted extent before thee from it to the banks 

 of the Essequibo ! No doubt, there is many a 

 balsam and many a medicinal root yet to be dis- 

 covered, and many a resin, gum, and oil yet un- 

 noticed. Thy work would be a pleasing one, and 

 thou mightest make several useful observations 

 in it. 



Would it be thought impertinent in thee to 

 hazard a conjecture, that with the resources the 

 government of Demerara has, stones might be 

 conveyed from the rock Saba to Stabroek, to stem 

 the equinoctial tides, which are for ever sweeping 

 away the expensive wooden piles round the mounds 

 of the fort? Or would the timber - merchant 



