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by the Negroes 3 but of thefe fettle- 

 merits, the Dutch made themfelves 

 mailers, in the reign of Charles the 

 Second, to retaliate the conquer! of 

 New Ho/land ; and by • a fubfequent 

 treaty, in February, 1674, they obtained 

 a ceffion of all the Englijh territories 

 in Guiana, in exchange for what they 

 had poffeffed in the province now called 

 New York. 



The land in Dutch Guiana, for the 

 diftance of near fifty miles from the fea, 

 is every where flat and level, without 

 a (ingle hill \ and fo low, that during the 

 rainy feafons, it is ufually covered with 

 water near two feet in height. This, 

 however, has produced an effect fimilar 

 to that of the prolific inundations of the 

 Nile, and rendered the foil more fertile 

 than that of any other part of the globe g 

 inlomuch, that the' foil on the furface 



