BRITISH GUIANA 



British Guiana occupies an area, equal in extent to Great 

 Britain, in the north-east of South America. It is bounded on 

 the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south and the south- 

 west by Brazil, on the east by Dutch Guiana, and on the north- 

 west by Venezuela. It has a seaboard of about 270 miles 

 trending in a south-easterly direction, and a maximum depth 

 of about 500 miles. The colony may be divided broadly into 

 three belts. The northern one consists of a low-lying flat and 

 swampy belt of marine alluvium, known as the coastal region. 

 This rises gradually from the seaboard, and extends inland for 

 a distance varying from 10 to 40 miles. It is succeeded by a 

 broader and slightly elevated tract of country composed of 

 sandy and clayey, practically sedentary, soils. This belt is 

 chiefly undulating land, and is traversed in places by tracts of 

 sand-dunes rising from 50 to 180 ft. above sea-level. The more 

 elevated portion lies to the southward of the above-mentioned 

 regions. It rises gradually to the south-west, between the 

 river valleys, which are in many parts swampy, and contains 

 three principal mountain ranges, several irregularly distributed 

 smaller ranges, and in the southern and eastern parts many 

 isolated hills and mountains. The eastern portion is almost 

 entirely forest clad, but on the central south and south-western 

 side there is an extensive area of flat grass-clad savannah land 

 elevated from 300 ft. upwards above sea-level. 



The Parliament of British Guiana recently passed a vote of 

 about £12,000 to be used in making a cattle track from the 

 savannahs, in the hinterland, or interior of the colony, to the 

 coast line. The distance is something like 120 miles, and much 

 of it is through dense bush. 



A Mr. Ogilvie, who is a rancher in the hinterland, is enthu- 

 siastic as to the possibilities of cattle -raising on the savannahs 



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