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especially along the canals and in the eastern parts of the island. The Jesuits 

 possessed rich coffee plantations at the foot of the Remire hill, and Gahrielle, on 

 the mainland south-east of the capital, was even at one time famous for its spices. 

 Daring the first years of the Restoration the cloves of this estate yielded a revenue 

 of £16,000 in favourable years. 



But at present all the old cultivated tracts have reverted to the state of bush, 

 and nothing is now seen except here and there a few coffee and cacao shrubs run 



Fig. '21.— Mouth of the Oyapok. 

 Scale 1 : 1,100,000. 



Oto 16 

 Feet, 



Depths. 



16 to 32 

 Feet. 



32 to 64 

 Feet. 



64 Feet 

 and upwards. 



,18 Miles. 



wild. The island is traversed by some carriage roads, one of which, 11 miles 

 long, runs to the so-called Dégrad des Cannes, a landing stage for the little 

 steamer which plies on the Mahuri creek as far as the village of Eoura. 

 Farther on, that is, always to the windward of Cayenne, flows the Kaw river 

 with a settlement of the same name, beyond which follows the Approuague, 

 famous for its auriferous alluvia. It was in the valley of the Aratai, a western 

 affluent of the Approuague, that gold was first discovered in this basin by a 



