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undulating, would save expense in drainage; much 
of the land is rich, well watered, free from forest, and 
ready for the hand of the ploughman ; the land would 
yield coffee, cotton, and tobacco, besides being well 
adapted for pasture or for agricultural purposes. The 
Indians inhabiting the district referred to (with whom 
it would be absolutely necessary that settlers should live 
on the most friendly terms) are far advanced in civiliza- 
tion, industrious and most efficient in the art of squaring 
timber, and as there are several wood-cutting establish- 
ments already high up the river they would afford great 
accommodation to such of the settlers as might 
prefer disposing of their materials, on the spot, to 
conveying them to the town of New Amsterdam for sale, 
a distance of more than one hundred miles from the part of 
the river on which the settlers would be located. The trees 
which line the banks of numerous creeks of the upper 
Berbice are of the most valuable description, and, in great 
abundance, would, at all times, afford the settlers constant 
and lucrative employment. This, coupled with the advan- 
tage of transport free from difficulty or danger (craft 
intended for transport service might load near the spot 
the trees are cut down) would advance the value of the 
tra£l of land, to which allusion has been made as being 
particularly well suited for such persons as feel disposed 
to try their hands at small industries/' 
The soil in several parts I visited was rich and emi- 
nently qualified for the cultivation of coffee and tobacco ; 
and the soil of the savanna to which I have already alluded 
is equally rich as the hills of the Moruca River where, at the 
present day, Spanish Arrawack Indians continue to culti- 
vate coffee with every success, and until recently tobacco 
