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letter-wood, vieing with the choicest woods of the first 
old world $ the locust-tree, yielding copal; and the J0UR — - 
hayawa and olou-trees, furnishing a sweet-smelling- 
resin, are all to be met with in the forest, betwixt 
the plantations and the rock Saba. 
Beyond this rock, the country has been little ex¬ 
plored ; but it is very probable that these, and a vast 
collection of other kinds, and possibly many new 
species, are scattered up and down, in all directions, 
through the swamps, and hills, and savannas of 
ci-devant Dutch Guiana. 
On viewing the stately trees around him, the 
naturalist will observe many of them bearing leaves, 
and blossoms, and fruit, not their own. 
The wild fig-tree, as large as a common English The wild 
^ ® . fig-tree. 
apple-tree, often rears itself from one of the thick 
branches at the top of the mora; and when its fruit 
is ripe, to it the birds resort for nourishment. It 
was to an undigested seed, passing through the body 
of the bird which had perched on the mora, that the 
fig-tree first owed its elevated station there. The 
sap of the mora raised it into full bearing; but now, 
in its turn, it is doomed to contribute a portion of 
its own sap and juices towards the growth of different 
species of vines, the seeds of which, also, the birds 
deposited on its branches. These soon vegetate, 
and bear fruit in great quantities; so what with 
their usurpation of the resources of the fig-tree, and 
the fig-tree of the mora, the mora, unable to sup¬ 
port a charge which nature never intended it should, 
languishes and dies under its burden$ and then the 
