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for folidity, weight, duration, or of* 

 nament. In this part of the country, 

 there are feveral ridges of fandy hills, 

 but no elevations, that can deferve the 

 name of mountains, between the fea- 

 coaft of the Dutch part of Guiana, and 

 the river of the Amazons ; a Dutch Sur- 

 geon, more than twenty years fince, hav- 

 ing obtained from the Governor of Ef- 

 fequebo, feveral Indians, to conduct him 

 into the interior part of the country, in 

 queft of new difcoveries, with whom 

 he afcended the river of Ejfequebo, three 

 hundred miles from the^fea, near its 

 fource, and from thence tranfporting 

 his canoe by creeks and rivulets, and 

 when thefe were wanting, by land, lie 

 at length fell in with a branch of the 

 river Blanco, by which he defcended 

 into the Negro, and from thence to the 

 river of the Amazons, without difco- 

 vering any confiderable mountain, in all 



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