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SECOND Cayenne. The entrance is beautiful. To wind- 



JOURNEY. 



ward, not far oft, there are two bold wooded 



islands, called the Father and Mother ; and near 

 them are others, their children, smaller, though as 

 beautiful as their parents. Another is seen a long 

 way to leeward of the family, and seems as if 

 it had strayed from home, and cannot find his 

 way back. The French call it " 1'enfant perdu." 

 As you pass the islands, the stately hills on the 

 main, ornamented with ever-verdant foliage, show 

 you that this is by far the sublimest scenery on the 

 sea-coast, from the Amazons to the Oroonoquo. 

 On casting your eye towards Dutch Guiana, 

 you will see that the mountains become uncon- 

 nected, and few in number, and long before 

 you reach Surinam, the Atlantic wave washes a 

 flat and muddy shore. 



constable Considerably to windward of Cayenne, and 

 about twelve leagues from land, stands a stately 

 and towering rock, called the Constable. As 

 nothing grows on it to tempt greedy and 

 aspiring man to claim it as his own, the sea- 

 fowl rest and raise their offspring there. The 

 bird called the frigate is ever soaring round 

 its rugged summit. Hither the phaeton bends 

 his rapid flight, and flocks of rosy flamingos 

 here defy the fowler's cunning. All along the 

 coast, opposite the Constable, and indeed on 

 every uncultivated part of it to windward and 

 leeward, are seen innumerable quantities of 



