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on a few miles below the line of the State. Two others exist in the 
z= present condition it is a a desert. But only a portion, however, of 
immense area is condemned to irretrievable barrenness—viz: the part 
ered with drifting sands. The greater part, Lisa the constituents of 4 
l, must be fertile in the extreme, and only wa nting moisture to pro- 
@ it continues to run. This arm of the Colorado might be made per- 
mt, but a far more convenient supply could be furnished by Artesian 
8, or better still, by wind-mills raising water from common wells, as 
now so successfully practiced throughout the fertile valley of San José, 
stated before, there is every reason to believe water can be had any- 
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: . says, “I find it not a bad country—having, most. of it, a better 
soil than the mountain district west of it. If water could be supplied 
regularly to the New river country it would be a perfect garden. , 
8. Gutta Percha of Surinam.—Professor Bleckrod of the Delft Academy, 
come into general use, yet much still remains to one regarding it, 
both as — ts its oe ue its sources, _ fie Ses states that Dutch 
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res to ms which the aon Git and cultivate it in Guiana ; 
Which Blume gives ig "ok Sapota. Milleri, which ee in 
every way equal to that of the Isonandra. It is ‘that t 
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