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to, and how plain your mouldering ruins show that the First 



Journey. 



firmest texture avails us naught when Heaven wills that 



we should cease to be ! — 



The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces. 

 The solemn temples, the great globe itself. 

 Yea, all which it inhabit, shall dissolve, 

 And, like the baseless fabric of a vision. 

 Leave not a wreck behind." 



Cast thine eye around thee, and see the thousands of 

 natm'e's productions. Take a view of them from the 

 opening seed on the surface, sending a downward shoot, 

 to the loftiest and the largest trees, rising up and 

 blooming in wild luxuriance ; some side by side, others 

 separate ; some curved and knotty, others straight as 

 lances ; all, in beautiful gradation, fulfilling the mandates 

 they had received from heaven, and though condemned 

 to die, still never failing to keep up their species till time 

 shall be no more. 



Reader, canst thou not be induced to dedicate a few 

 months to the good of the public, and examine with thy 

 scientific eye the productions which the vast and well- 

 stored colony of Demerara presents to thee ? 



What an immense range of forest is there from the 

 rock Saba to the great fall ! and what an uninterrupted 

 extent before thee from it to the banks of the Essequibo ! 

 No doubt, there is many a balsam and many a medicinal 

 root yet to be discovered, and many a resin, gum, and oil 



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