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which is on that side of British Guiana next to Dutch 

 Guiana. According to the Venezuelan manner of interpre- 

 tation, the Cession would have extended only to the left 

 Bank of the Berbice. As a fact, the Dutch have never 

 questioned the right of the British, through that Cession, 

 to the whole water-shed of the Berbice ; to that of the 

 Canje, and right up to the left bank of the River Coren- 

 tyne. As between the Dutch and English, there could be 

 no room for argument as to the extent of territory in- 

 cluded in the " establishment," or " Colony or establish- 

 ment " (as the Convention of the loth and 13th of August, 

 1814, has it), of Essequibo. Jan JacoB Hartsinck, 

 an official of the Dutch West India Company, who had 

 lived in Dutch Guiana, wrote a History of the Dutch 

 Settlertients in Guiana, which was published in Holland 

 in 1770. In the XXII Chapter of his book, Hartsinck 

 wrote as follows : — 



" Dutch Guiana is divided firstly into the Colony of 

 " Essequibo, to which the river BonweroUy or Poumeron 

 *^ and adjacent rivers and distrid appertain" * * 

 Hartsinck says as to the Western Boundary : — 

 '* Some place Dutch Guiana west with the river 

 " Baryma, lying 8 degrees, 5 minutes north latitude, 

 " which empties itself in the Oronoque — others again 

 " west of the river Waine, situate about five leagues 

 " east of the Oronoque." 



Hartsinck subsequently says : — 

 " The first rivers which we meet with in Dutch Guiana, 

 *' coming from the Oronoque are the creeks or rivers 

 '* Baryma, about a mile broad, where formerly we had a 

 " post; three miles further the Amachara" (Amacura) 

 •' of the same breadth, which like the before-mentioned 



