Remarks on the Aspect and Flora of the Kaieteur 
Savannah. 
By G. S. Jenman, F.L.8., Government Botanist of British Guiana. 
HE Kaieteur Savannah, which partly skirts for 
two or three miles the Potaro river — without, 
however, running parallel with it — within a 
narrow belt of river-bank vegetation, mostly forest of 
unequal depth, lies in 59 19' west longitude 
and 5 8' north latitude, immediately behind to 
the right of the Kaieteur, and forms a small 
part of the broad table-land which heads, and 
in a measure flanks, the great valley through which 
the Potaro runs a considerable portion of its way on 
the lower reaches toward its confluence with the Cou- 
riebrong and Essequibo rivers. On the north-east 
side, looked at from the river, the savannah abruptly 
terminates in conglomerate rock, intersected by deep 
and wide fissures, and by patches of broken woodland 
vegetation ; and the land drops a perpendicular depth 
of a thousand feet, thereby producing the wonderful 
water-fall known by its Indian name of Kaieteur. With 
regard to the name, I may remark that I closely 
questioned several of the inhabitants of the region as 
to its pronunciation, and there is no doubt that they 
sound it Kaietouck or perhaps Kaietout ; for in 
this and many other such names a faint k or t seems used 
somewhat indeterminately. But as C. B. Brown spread 
the fame of the fall, and other writers have followed him, 
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