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quite green, clusters of little cottages, some detached buildings, 

 the better sort of houses, of two, three, and four stories high, 

 painted white, and the red boarded roofs, made many an in- 

 teresting groupe, and gave to every plantation the air of a se- 

 parate village. The passing and repassing of schooners and 

 other colony-boats, considerably enlivened the landscape. 

 This character of country continued all the way to the De- 

 merary. We went over the bar safely, but night coming on, 

 we were obliged to anchor about two miles from the river's 

 mouth, and did not get in till the next morning, when a pilot 

 came off and took charge of the vessel, which he brought to 

 anchor under the guns of Fort William Frederic. Now that the 

 breeze blew over land we were delighted with its orange-like 

 fragrance. The scenery is much more diversified about this 

 river's mouth, than on the other parts of the coast. A number 

 of wind-mills appeared at work both on the east and west side 

 of the Demerary. Several handsome and spacious mansions, 

 with look-outs on the beach, the principal ones of which, I 

 afterwards understood, belong to the Bel-Air estate and the 

 Cfaateau-Margot. 



The mouth of the Demerary lies in 6, 50 north latitude, 

 and 58 west longitude from London. The province which 

 it waters, bears the same name, but might more conveniently 

 be called Demeraria. Its extent of sea-coast is nearly one 

 liundred miles, running west, and by north and west ; it is 



