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Second sea-fowl rest aiid raise their offspring there. The bird 



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called the Frigate is ever soaring round its rugged summit. 



Hither the Phaeton bends his rapid flight, and flocks of 

 rosy Flamingos here defy the fowler's cunning. All along 

 the coast, opposite the Constable, and indeed on every 

 uncultivated part of it to windward and leeward, are seen 

 innumerable quantities of snow-white Egrets, scarlet 

 Curlews, Spoonbills, and Flamingos. 



Colony of Cayenne is capable of being a noble and productive 



Cayenne. 



colony. At present it is thought to be the poorest on the 

 coast of Guiana. Its estates are too much separated one 

 from the other, by immense tracts of forest ; and the 

 revolutionary war, like a cold eastern wind, has chilled 

 their zeal, and blasted their best expectations. 



The clove -tree, the cinnamon, pepper and nutmeg, 

 and many other choice sj^ices and fruits, of the eastern 

 and Asiatic regions, produce abundantly in Cayenne. 

 The town. The towu itsclf is prettily laid out, and was once well 

 fortified. They tell you it might easily have been 

 defended against the invading force of the two united 

 nations; but Victor Hugues, its governor, ordered the 

 tri-coloured flag to be struck ; and ever since that day, 

 the standard of Braganza has waved on the ramparts 

 of Cayenne. 



Governor of Hc who has received humiliations from the hand of 



Cayenne. 



this haughty, iron-hearted governor may see him now in 

 Cayenne, stripped of all his revolutionary honours. 



