GUIANA, 
though, by other aeeounts, the Maroni is the boundary, the Portuguefe, the line of demarcation pafling nearly pa 
with a Dutch poit on one fide, anda French on the other. rallel with the lake of Parima, and the great chain of moun: 
From the Mana to the Arawary, the French fhere is of tains called Tumucarang. The precife weftern boundary is 
confiderable extent, being about 6°, or 360 geographical the weltern mouth of the river Yapura, thence proceedin 
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bis (which fee) there many other Indian tribes, moftly Oronoko, a fhore of only 30 leagues; on the N. and W 
iddle ftature, but the women lefs, an not fo weil the Oronoko, till it receives the Guaviari, where it is 
formed as the men. The Indians generally ftain their fkin bounded by the Portuguefe poffeffions, Accor ing to this 
of ared colour with rouceu, or arno defence againit writer (T'ravels, vol. it P- 353-) Spanifh Guiana from the 
the mufquitoes. They reckon time by the revolution of mouths of the Oronoko to the limits of the river Portu. 
the moon and of the Pleiades. Some of them play on the guefe occupies a fpace of more than 400 
fiute, fo as to produce a found refembling the bellowing of breadth in the firft 86 leagues to the E. is no 
an ox. Girls often choofe their hufbands by prefenting leagues S., where it is bounded by the poffeffions of the 
drink, the acceptance of which conititutes the whole cere- Dutch, but’ then its breadth increafes to more tha 
mony. ‘T’o the vegetable and medicinal drugs enumerated leagues. Upon this immenfe furface it ha: 
under the article Cayenne, we may here add the arnotto habitants of all conditions and all colours, 
pital being adopted as 
But this, however, he fays, would 
of the Accawau Indians, and the Ticuna poifon proceeds more jullly belong to the river Caroni, becaufe it bounds, 
from the roots of certain climbers called nibbees, which in- on all the weltern part, a territory that might properly be 
habit the entangled forefts of the immenfe {wamps of the called an ifland; for it has the Oronoko to the N., the fea 
country. Pinkerton’s Geog. vol. iii, For other particu- to the E., the river Effequibo to the S., and the Caroni to 
: the W. It forms almoft a {quare of 70 leagues from E. 
Guiana, Portuguefe, is a portion of Guiana generally to W., and 30 leagues in its leaft breadth from N. to S, 
eonfidered, whofe iength may be computed from the mouth America has few lands more fertile than thofe within this 
of the Arawary to the vicinity of the Rio Negro, about circumference. Watered by a number of rivers, which for 
11 degrees, or 660 geographical miles; while the medial ages have augmented the bed of mould, they reproach man 
breadth, from the mountains of esha to the Mara- for his indolence and floth. The miflionaries, notwithftand- 
non, may be four leagues or 240 geographic miles, The ing their zeal for making converts, have not yet penetrated 
7 : f this extenfi an 30 leagues from the coaft; the interior parts 
tribes whofe names are little known; but the Portuguefe, being occupied by the C Ve 
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little of the Spaniards. Upper Guiana comprehends every t ing 
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fied village of Paru occurs; and at a noted ftrait of the ated at 
Maranon is the little fortrefs of Pauxis. Where the Rio which th 
Negro joins the Maranon, the Portuguefe have a fortrefs, fom country provifions. The {oi 
lat. 3° g', according to Alcedo, who adds that they thence for tobacco. Phe moft remarkable 
capture Indians for their mines, and that along the Rio ana is the courfe of the river 0 
Negro there are many miffions of the Portuguefe Carme- which fee that a 
hi : : Depons, in formmg a judgment of 
chiefly nary ftations, which, by the recent account of riches or poverty of Guiana, eftimates what the tithes pro- 
Depons, approach to the panith fortrefs of San Carlos, on duce. Tn 1803 A rd dol- — 
the Rio Neer. N. a i 5g..: 82 bre the prefent eaftern Jars a year.” 
boundary uf Portuguefe Guiana extends to the great river and carry it to 6000 that would give an ann 
Negro. The stats Sealy the original boundary to the N., ehcsee tact Aten fe ee S 
but the Portuguefe have extended their poffeffions two Gui e ; : : 
teagues farther, for there are fituated the ifle St. st 2 the produ&ts of the herds of the Capuchi aries are 
tain Gloria del Cocui, regarded as the prefent not allowed in the account, becaufe ey are exempt. The 
Pinker n. se . orned beafts which they poffefs are eftimated at 150,000, 
Guiana, Spanj/b, called in fome maps New Cumana or which of courfe make a pat of the riches of Guiana. 
New Aadalufia, a province of South America belonging to "There were, notwithftanding, exported through the port of 
fet es a ‘eg me " he Sad t ; eae js = icle f; me thi me” 
the Spaniards, P ng an extent, acc © De- Guiana, from 17 1 to 1794, in art rovince, 
pons, of 1000 leagues in circumference atte bound ed on and alfo from ew Varinas, Ka 10,380 oxen and 3140 mules jules; 
the S.E. by the Dutch and French poffeffions, on the S. by and they in return introduced 200 blacks, and 3492448 hard 
