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places are given in the appendix to this paper, and the 
great similarity of each of them is very apparent. One 
cannot leave this district without paying a visit to 
Coomacka, as I venture to think that here will be found 
some of the largest cocoa trees in the world ; and my 
friend Mr. NlND, who accompanied me, is sure that there 
are none like them in Trinidad ; not trees to suit a cocoa 
planter but wild, luxuriant overgrown specimens) 
samples of what a cocoa tree if left to itself in a suitable 
soil will grow to. Some of these trees, groups of gigan- 
tic stems, are from 50 to 70 ft. high, with branches 
extending 67 ft. and measuring at a distance 5 ft. from 
the ground, 9 ft. 5 in. in circumference., One single stem 
which we carefully measured had a circumference of 
3 ft. 4 in. Few pods grow on these trees, but what 
there is of them, are large, of the yellow variety, con- 
taining an average of 40 beans. Looking over the 
analysis attached to this paper and which has been care- 
fully made by Mr. Alexander, the chemist at Tuschen, 
it will be apparent that this land is not suited to cane 
cultivation. In fact the stools of canes grown by the 
Indians close to their settlements do not look thriving; 
with ample room to spread, they look weak and the 
canes stunted ; and on talking to those who have lived 
long in the district, such is the general opinion. Then 
comes the question, what has the new settler to turn to 
for a crop. Undoubtedly, cocoa and coffee. The 
former we have seen neglected, thriving and growing 
vigorously, not up to a cocoa planter's idea of thriving, 
that is, bearing large crops, but this would soon be cor- 
rected by pruning and cultivation ; the latter the Berbice 
river has always been noted for, and a Ceylon planter 
