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making a ride of fome miles into the country, 

 in an open carriage ; but, without attempting 

 to, give you a more minute defcription, at pre- 

 fent, I may, limply, confirm the remark I made 

 at our firft coming on more— that the whole 

 of the land is one wide-extended plain, thickly 

 covered with cotton-bufhes, and every where 

 interfe&ed, with ditches and canals, like the 

 low territory of Holland. 



I have, likewife, made a vifit of curiofity 

 to a coffee plantation, near the town, where 

 I faw an extenfive difplay of the riches and 

 luxuriancy of the foil of Guiana. This eftate 

 differs from the wide fields upon the coaft, 

 only in being a flat furface of coffee, inftead of 

 cotton ; but it is rendered rich and inviting, 

 from being traverfed with green walks, fhaded 

 with fine rows of trees, whofe loaded branches 

 bend under the various fpecies of tropical 

 fruits, ferving, at the fame time, to delight the 

 eye, regale the olfactories, and refrefh the 

 , palate. A pleafant path, more than a mi!e in 

 length, and of fufficient width for carriages, 

 leads down the middle of the eftate, the fides 

 being decorated with mangoes, oranges, ava- 

 gata pears, and many other kinds of fruit. 



