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which fet along from the fouthward and the coaft of Brafil. 

 That of the Oroonoko is detained, and allowed to fettle near its 

 mouths, by the oppolite iflands of Trinidad, and ftill mor€ by 

 the mountains on the main, which are only feparated from, 

 that ifland by the Bocos del Drago. The coaft of Guiana has 

 remained as it were the great eddy or refling-place for the 

 wafhings of great part of South America for ages ; and its own 

 comparatively fmall ftreams have but modified here and there 

 the grand depolit. 



W. LOCHHEAD, 



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