22 TlMEHRI. 
From Teroota the two mountains seem to rise from a 
common sloping base ; and, placed on this, each seems 
to consist in itself of a sloping portion surmounted by 
the cliff- walls. Looking directly north, we saw straight 
into the narrow forest-filled gorge, on either side of 
which, like Titanic gate-posts, rose slope surmounted 
by cliff, on the right that of Roraima, on the left 
that of Kookenaam. Thick woods entirely clothe the 
slope of the latter, fill the gorge between the two 
mountains, and have climbed up from out of the gorge 
just on the extreme western shoulder of Roraima. The 
greater part of the slope of this latter mountain, much 
broken into curious terraces and often fluted, if I may 
use the expression, in a very remarkable manner at right 
angles to these terraces, is for the most part grass- 
covered, though in places occupied by coppices ; while on 
the extreme right, i.e., on the southern shoulder of the 
mountain, thick woods again occupy the entire slope. 
But even on Roraima the entire upper part of the 
savannah slope is as thickly wooded as is the whole of 
that of Kookenaam. And, alike in both mountains, 
above the slope, springing directly from out of the high- 
est woods, rise the huge perpendicular cliff-walls, 
tremendous, and bare but for great patches of vegetation 
really dwarf enough but appearing at that distance 
merely as moss and lichen. Alike, again, in both moun- 
tains the sky-line, straight enough, is yet curiously 
jagged as is a very rough-torn edge of paper. And 
alike from both mountains fall streams of water, more or 
less visible according to the season, the most constantly 
conspicuous being, from Kookenaam, the river of the 
same name, from Roraima the Kamaiwa and a river, of 
