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Mighty Granitz Rocks. 
150. Tuarutu village lay in 2° 7' 3" Lat. N. aud 59° 46' Long. W.: 
the highest point of the range of the same name, in >\hich we noAV found 
ourselves, rose 1,800 feet over the Takntu. Some other intportant moun- 
tains in the neighbourhood reoxhed a heiglit of 1,000 to 1,150 feet. The 
chain stretches to a length of close upon 10 miles without, however, form- 
ing a linear range: it consists rather of an irregular mass of isolated 
mountains and hills encircling larger savannah Hats thet are generally 
strewn with rough granite fragments. Through such savannah flats and 
scattered elevations from 150 to 200 feet high the Tuarutu Range junc- 
tions Avitli that of the Ossotschuni, al)out 11 miles in length running 
from N.E. to S.W. Tlie steep masses of granite that were mentioned 
as having already astonished us so much on the Tuarutu (Sect. 128, etc.) 
appeared on the Ossotschuni Eange in still mightier i)ropor- 
tions Uruwai, Wapuua or Wahuma and Curischiwini 
are granite collossi rising from 1,500 to 1,800 feet 
which, by Virtue of the illumination due to the sun's rays being reflected 
from the huge quartz-veins bounding through them, form a really 
magic contrast with the dark gloomy granite crags and at the same time 
lend the forests at their bases a more than supernatural durrm. Accord 
ing to what the Wapisianas said, tobacco must be growing wild on MounI 
Uruwai. Southward from the Ossotschuni dense virgin forest extended 
to the distant liorizon, while the ranges of the Essequebo lim'ited them in 
the distant azure towards the S.S.E. 
151. From the information that could be gathered here concerning 
the sources of the Takutu, we would be reaching a Macusi settlement 
within a couple of days in the neighbourhood of which they ought to be 
found. By the 2nd May we were so far victualled as to allow of our 
resuming the journey, having also received a promise to find on our 
return sufficient provisions to take us to Pirara. Hamlet burst into tears 
when we took leave and the expedition, headed by an Indian from 
Tuarutu as guide, made a move in the direction of the Ossotschuni Range. 
After ci'ossing many a craggy hill on which grew numbers of Orchids 
like Cyrtopodium, Monachanthns and Oncidium, we reached the riyer 
Turerucata-kurin, where the aliundance of water however by no means 
corresponded with the length of nanie. It pours itself into the Ossotsi- 
chunl which takes its rise in the similarly-named range that w^e left lying 
on our right, to follow its slope a distance of about two miles: in this 
connection a high pyramidal mass of granite served as finger-post to our 
guides. Exhausted and panting for a drink, Taramtibawau, a small 
stream that bickered wildly over huge granite slabs, and sallied in and 
out between them, offered us co])ious refreshment in the afternoon. After 
a. short rest we started again and soon climbed some heights called by 
the Wapisianas Wawaciinal)a, fromi the summlit of which Ave enjoyed a 
most lovely view over the savannahs and towards S.E. onto Mount Yin- 
daiia, Avhilst toAvering behind them Ave recognised the huge bodies of the 
Wanguwai and Amneu Ranges in the neighljourhood of tlie confluence 
of the YuaAvauri or Ciussikityu Avith the upiier Essequel)o. Further to- 
wards the East there rose a mass of mountains equally as high as the 
Wanguwai wliich the Indians called Uassari, and in which my brother 
