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dreadful fra€tures, with which the party endeavours of 
misguided men have threatened it. 
CREEKS. 
Boerasiri Creek opens at the point of jun€tion of the 
West Coast with the East Bank of Essequebo river, It is 
not navigable for schooners above 14 miles from its 
mouth, and its source is scarcely 30 or 40 miles in the 
interior in the south-western savannahs. 7 
The country about the rise of this creek is so plenti- 
fully endowed with the bounties of nature that it is 
astonishing it should never have been settled and culti- 
vated. Fish, game, excellent soil, and picturesque 
scenery, have long made it the retreat of runaway negroes, 
without having as yet attraéted the attention of white 
settlers, | 
It should be a point of policy to establish a strong 
Indian post at this point, which could be done with 
little trouble or expense, as the communication with 
Demerara and Essequibo is direét and simple, either by 
land or water. 
COLONIZATION, 
The Dutch who first settled the country proceeded 
some miles up the river before they established themselves, 
believing rightly enough that the sea shores, from being 
low and repeatedly overflowed, would be very un- 
healthy. In time, however, the interest of the planter 
overcame the love even of life, and as low lands were 
found to be infinitely more produétive than those more 
inland and elevated, the scene of cultivation gradually 
changed. There is now hardly a vestige remaining of 
the old capitals and seats of Government of either 
Demerara or Essequebo, that formerly stood on Islands 
