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approached. The forest growth on these higher lands 

 takes on noble proportions, gigantic mora trees, with 

 greenheart, dally, trysil, crabwood, arrisouroo, wallaba 

 etc., being seen in all dire6lions. 



At the VViribaroo creek, where, on the West bank, a 

 cascade is found — the water rushing and roaring down 

 a steep incline — the river flows for some distance due 

 West, with a very heavy current, over an inclined bed, 

 where evidently in the dry weather a set of rapids must 

 exist. Until the range of hills is passed, the same heavy 

 current is encountered, accelerated here and there at 

 wide intervals, where the various creeks join the river, as 

 at Embibaroo, on the East bank, where another cascade is 

 met with, and at the Sackabaroo and Oobaroo creeks, also 

 on the East bank, some miles further on. The gravel banks 

 and rocks, which, at these points, are said to produce rapids 

 in the dry weather, were now quite covered, but the im- 

 pure ironstone which forms the great, if not the entire bulk 

 of the Wahmara range, was seen on all sides. 



At a short distance above the Sackabaroo creek, the 

 road which is said to lead out by the Akaiwanne creek 

 on the Essequebo river, is met with. There appears to 

 have been several paths formerly used to cross over to 

 the Berbice. Mr. Sawkins mentions one from the 

 Oobaroo creek, which, at the time of his visit, had been 

 abandoned for another lower down, by which the distance 

 was less ; while Mr. Brown, four years later, crossed over 

 from the Berbice by the Itaburro creek — a name that was 

 not recognised by the Indians with me. From the context 

 in the report, the Itaburro creek would seem to be identical 

 with the large Oobaroo creek, though there is now no 

 village of Paintecobra to confirm the identification. 



