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chief promoters of this infurredtion were 

 however burnt, or broke on the wheel, 

 with all the various fpecies of cruelty 

 for which the Dutch have been long 

 notorious. Before this, however, feve- 

 ral hundreds of the Carribbee Indians 

 were, by the Governor of Ejfequebo and 

 Demerary, engaged to take up arms 

 againft the Rebels, whom they not a lit- 

 tle harrafled, by concealing themfelves 

 in the woods by day, and fetting fire to 

 their houfes in the night, by {hooting ar- 

 rows fired at the point among the Troo- 

 lies, with which they were thatched, 

 and then killing the Negroes as they 

 fled out in confufion. 



About fifteen leagues North Weft 

 from Berbice is the River Demerary, 

 near three quarters of a mile in width at 

 its entrance, which is in 6 deg. 46 m. 

 North Latitude. On the eaft fide is a 

 fandy fhoal, extending a little diftance 

 A a 3 from 



