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: late manager of the ‘ Prospect’ Estate, which includes all 
the upper portion of the valley, cut a deep drain to the 
j face of the declivity to draw off the surface waters of the 
’ farthermost end of the vale, which tended to create some 
! marshiness in the upper part of the estate, then being laid 
i down in canes. In fact the. only natural watershed here 
is the edge of the precipice. This little bay is spelt on all 
1 the maps Macaripe, but is always pronounced Matchereep, 
! as if the original word had be$n Maqueripe ; the qu in our 
' words of aboriginal origin is, in creole, always converted 
^ into tch, as in Carapiquaime, now Carapichaima,— Quiauan 
j or Quiauanas, gallicised into Quiaouane, then dropping 
j the i, creolised into Chaguane (pronounced Tchawann, 
! and often Shawanne), but spelt officially, for a generation 
| back at least, Chaguanas, as if under the impression that 
this was the original and correct Spanish spelling, — also 
iu Quemada (Spanish signifyingburnt, scorched), creolised 
| into tchemadde, the correct spelling having been, however,, 
j in this instance retained. 
Were the land to sink 20 feet in the Boeas; Islands and 
the adjacent portion of Trinidad, Monos would be cut into 
two by the insulation of the Morris peninsula. Huevos 
would permanently separate into two, not as now only at 
high tide. Chacachacare. would be two good-sized lofty 
Islets, with a good channel between, and the peninsula of 
Point Gourde would become an Island with a broad chan- 
nel between it and the Chaguaramas land, while Carenago 
swamp would be a bay running probably 2 or 3 miles up 
the present valley. If the land in the latter were sunk 40 
feet lower, the Chaguaramas mountain group would be 
converted into an Island as big as all the actual Boca 
Islands in one, and a new Boca would run through the 
Carenago depression, finding its exit in the present Maca- 
