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The Dutch, on the other hand, occupied that territory, 

 settled in it, and exercised dominion over it. How 

 efFe6lively the English succeeded the Dutch in this re- 

 gard, can be gathered from a very precious document, 

 which is published in Venezuelan International Law 

 (pp. 237). It is a Memorial on Limits by Senor Mar- 

 MOL. In urging upon the Government of the Republic, 

 the pressing need for a settlement of the Boundary 

 Question, Senor Marmol makes the following state- 

 ment : — 



" In the neighbourhood of the Amacuro, a navigable 

 " and important affluent of the Orinoco, the mouth of 

 *' which is West of the Barima, there is a town of natives, 

 " belonging to the Distrift of Curiapo in the Department 

 " of Zea. When the last census was taken in 1874, 

 " some subje6ls of the British Government from Deme- 

 " rara, trading with these natives, pretended that this 

 " town should not be included in the census of the 

 " Republic, under pretext that it was under the juris- 

 " di6Hon of the Government of Demerara. Fortunately 

 " our Commissioner for the census vigorously impugned 

 " that pretension, and the native town was included in 

 « it." 



It should be well understood that the distri6l described 

 by Senor Marmol is situated to the West of the Ama- 

 cura, and in the region to which the British Government 

 does not press its claims. Senor Marmol further makes 

 mention of a tradition of a land communication, between 

 the mouths of the Essequibo and the interior of what is 

 now claimed as Venezuelan Guiana. These are his 

 words : — 



" And still more and more worthy of the most serious 



