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CHAP. Fourgeoud, the officers, and the barges with the privates, 



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' . From the Hope, the ertates now began to appear thinner ; 

 and after paihng Goet- Accord, about ten or twelve miles 

 farther upwards, not a cultivated fpot was to be feen, the 

 plantations having been all laid in aQies by the rebels in 

 i757j I have already mentioned, a fmall place excepted, 

 juft below Magdenberg, which is, I think, called the 

 "Jacobs and where a few negroes are kept to cut timber. 

 The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being 

 lined on each fide with impenetrable brufh-wood, like 

 the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca ; 

 and the Tempatee Creek, which may be coniidered as the 

 fource of the whole river Comewina, becomes alfo much 

 narrower. Magdenberg, which is about a hundred 

 miles from Paramaribo, was formerly an ellate, but has 

 now not a veftige of cultivation left, a poor old orange- 

 tree excepted, and is at prefent neither more or lefs 

 than a barren defolate mountain. 



Here we found the furface of the earth in fome places 

 covered with a kind of ftrata, that had the appearance of 

 mother-of-pearl, and lay fcattered in fmall fcales, about 

 the fize of an Englifh fhilling. In many places of Suri- 

 j nam are found the marks of foffils and ores, as I have 

 already hinted. Indeed, iron ore is common, and I have 

 no doubt but gold and filver mines might be met with if 

 the Dutch would be at the expence, and perfevere in 

 making the difcovery. I have already mentioned the 

 ' Marawina diamond, and white and red agate, which are 



often 



