STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE 



SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, 8cc. 



CHAPTER I. 



PREFACE EMIGRATION MERITORIOUS — EMBARKATION AT 



LIVERPOOL COVE OF CORK PASS MADEIRA AND TENE- 



RIFFE PROPOSAL TO CULTIVATE THE MADEIRA GRAPE 



AT TRINIDAD FIRST VIEW OF THE COAST OF SOUTH 



AMERICA OFF THE MOUTH OF THE COURANTINE 



ANCHORAGE IN THE RIVER DEMERARY PROVISIONS TO 



BE MADE FOR A WEST INDIA VOYAGE CENSURE OF THE 



NAVIGATION ACT. 



This sketch of the Settlements on the Berbice, the Dcme- 

 rary, the Esscquebo, and the Pomaroon, is in great part copied 

 from successive letters written by the author to his family, in 

 the course of a seven years residence at Stabroek, without any 

 view to publication. He therefore hopes the reader will be 

 content with a plain statement of what he has seen and thought. 



