A Journey to Mount Russell In Guiana. 
By the Editor. 
JN Monday the 21st of August, 1882, at 5 o'clock 
in the afternoon everything, with but one 
exception, was ready for the journey which 
Mr. PERCIVAL, the Principal of the Queen's College, 
and I were to make to the one notable mountain 
in this, the Pomeroon district, the most level part 
of all the level land of Guiana. The one want which 
kept us standing by the loaded boat at the water-side at 
Maccasseema was of our guide, an Ackawoi Indian 
named Daniel. 
Toward the end of the previous year a writer in one 
of our colonial newspapers had announced his discovery 
of a mountain, 1000 ft. high, far up the Pomeroon River, 
or rather the Issororo, which is a large tributary of the 
Pomeroon, in the northernmost district of British Guiana. 
To this mountain the discoverer had given the name of 
Mount Russell. Its interest lies chiefly in the facts that 
in this flat coastland of Guiana any ground rising higher 
than a mole-hill is attractive from its rarity, that gold is 
said to exist in, or in the neighbourhood of the mountain, 
and that, because it lies so far removed from the parts 
visited even by Indians that no rumour had been heard, 
nor had any human being knowledge, of its existence 
until its discoverer chancing, in search of gold, to follow 
the Issororo up to its head-waters saw it some nine 
