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be grown there. Another sample was sent from Pin. La 
Bonne Intention on the East Coast of Demerara River, 
where the abandoned land between the cane-fields and 
the sea, is covered with cotton plants which bear so lux- 
uriantly, that but a few weeks ago the whole place was 
as white as though covered by snow. It is instructive to 
add that on that occasion the attorney of the estate having 
offered high wages for picking this cotton, having even 
offered as an experiment the value of the cotton in 
the Liverpool market, the black Creoles of the East 
Coast, whose chief work is to cry that they have no work, 
could not be induced to pick, and the whole crop was 
wasted. 
Among chemical products a long line of sam- 
ples of cocoanut oil first met the eye, some being of 
excellent quality. Machinery having recently been in- 
troduced into the colony for the extraction of this oil, 
it is to be hoped that the large quantity of cocoanuts 
annually produced, it being no longer remunerative to 
export these, may be utilized by the extraction from 
them of this useful oil. 
A more curious if less useful exhibit was a bottle of 
the fat of the " Camoodie" snake {Eunectes murinus) 
which is largely used by the Indians and, especially, by 
the black people as a medicine. 
Tonka beans and locust gum appeared side by side. 
These two articles are now exported from the colony in 
no inconsiderable quantities. 
Lucust gum, gum animi, or simiri gum (for it is 
known by all these and other names) is the product of 
the locust tree (Hymencea Courbaril). This tree which 
