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receive within his own doors. Thus, to be kind 



, 



and attable to those we meet, to mix in their 

 amusements, to pay a compliment or two to their 

 manners and customs, to respect their elders, 

 to give a little to their distressed and needy, 

 and to feel, as it were, at home amongst them, 

 is the sure way to enable you to pass merrily on, 

 and to find other comforts as sweet and palatable 

 as those which you were accustomed to partake 

 of amongst your friends and acquaintance in your 

 own native land. We will now ascend in fancy 

 on Icarian wing, and take a view of Guiana in 

 general. See an immense plain ! betwixt two of 

 the largest rivers in the world, level as a bowling- 

 green, save at Cayenne, and covered with trees 

 along the coast quite to the Atlantic wave, except 

 where the plantations make a little vacancy 

 amongst the foliage. 



Though nearly in the centre of the torrid zone, 

 the sun's rays are not so intolerable as might 

 be imagined, on account of the perpetual ver- 

 dure and refreshing north-east breeze. See what 

 numbers of broad and rapid rivers intersect it 

 in their journey to the ocean, and that not a 

 stone or a pebble is to be found on their banks, 

 or in any part of the country, till your eye 

 catches the hills in the interior. How beautiful 

 and magnificent are the lakes in the heart of 

 the forests, and how charming the forests them- 

 selves, for miles after miles on each side of the 



