EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



was demoliflied by the Englifli. Nor were they more 

 fuccefsful in one which they founded in 1677, on the ri- 

 ver Wiapoko or Oyapoa, which was immediately in- 

 vaded and deftroved bv the French. 



The Dutch confider the beautiful and once flourifliing 

 colony of Surinam as extending over the whole of that 

 territory which is encircled on the weft by the river 

 Kanre or Cange, about forty miles from the Gorantine, 

 and on the eaft by the river Sinamaree. But thefe li- 

 mits are difputed by the French, who confine the boun- 

 dary of Surinam to the banks of the Marawina, upon 

 which they ftation a military force. 



The principal rivers that belong to this fettlement are 

 the river Surinam, from which the colony takes its 

 name, the Gorantine, the Gopename, the Seramica, and 

 the Marawina. Of thofe rivers the firft only is navi- 

 gable, the reft, not excepting the Marawina, being, 

 though very long and broad, fo fliallow, and fo extremely 

 crouded with rocks and fmall iflands, that they are of 

 little confequence to Europeans, nor are their banks in- 

 habited except by fome of the Indians or natives of the 

 country. The river Surinam, whofe mouth is lituated 

 in about fix degrees north latitude, is, at its entrance, 

 nearly' the breadth of four Engliih miles, and in depth 

 from fixteen to eighteen feet at low-water mark, the tide 

 rifing and falling above twelve feet \ this breadth and 

 depth is continued from its mouth upwards to the dif- 

 tance of eight or ten miles, when it divides itfelf into ~ 



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