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The only divifion of feafons in Gui- 

 ana is into rainy and dry ; of each of 

 thefe there are annually two, of about 

 three months duration each. The 

 rainy feafons depend on the approaches 

 of the Sun, towards the Tropics of 

 Cancer and Capricorn. In the month 

 of May, when that luminary arrives 

 within ten or twelve degrees from the 

 Tropic of Cancer, the fhowers begin, 

 and gradually increafe, both in frequen- 

 cy and the term of their duration, un- 

 til the month of June, when the rains 

 become inceffant, accompanied with vio- 

 lent and frequent thunder, and thus conti- 

 nue until the beginning of when they 

 gradually decreafe with the Sun's retro- 

 grade motion towards the Equator, and 

 by the beginning of Augufi intirely ceafe. 

 The fame gradation is obferved as the 

 Sun approaches the Tropic of Capricorn; 

 but as we, in this part of Guiana, are 



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