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almost tumbling down, inhabited by a tribe of pigs, the 
woodwork overhead infested with marabuntas and wood- 
ants. You can ascend the stairs if you are careful ; and 
it is a pity to see the remains of old books, pictures, etc., 
scattered about the floor and wall, a prey to damp and 
wood-ants. One picture especially strikes you, a view 
of the river in days gone bye, by some infant artist, and 
if ever the water was covered by the number of boats 
depicted, the Berbice river must indeed have been a gay 
place. Behind the house you find two splendid speci- 
mens of cocoa trees laden at the time of my visit with 
young fruit. The soil here, by the accumulation of 
house refuse, appears somewhat different to that which I 
have already described and to a slight extent less sandy 
and more impregnated with vegetable matter ; but a few 
yards from the house brings you again to the white sand, 
then through a small belt of trees to the same open 
savanna as exists at Friendship. In fact such is the 
formation of the whole of this district, — the river bank, a 
strip of sandy clay of greater or less width, then a belt 
of trees growing in sand, and lastly the sandy savanna. 
I need not land my hearers at each place. I stopped at 
Maria Henrietta, belonging to a Mr. Gladstone, and 
if any one wants to visit this district you cannot do better 
than write to him and he will find you accommodation 
for hanging your hammocks, provide boats, and act 
as guide. We also visited Landstroon, where an 
American has started a cocoa plantation, eking out an 
existence until his crop commences to give him a return, 
by growing ground provisions, bartering small goods 
with the Indians for gums, tonka beans, etc., and keeping 
a small store. Analyses of the soil from these two 
