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FIRST 
JOURNEY. 
Face of 
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try. 
you may make your way through the forest on foot, 
or continue your route on the river. 
After passing the third island in the river Deme- 
rara, there are few plantations to be seen, and those 
not joining on to one another, but separated by large 
tracts of wood. 
The Loo is the last where the sugar-cane is grow r - 
ing. The greater part of its negroes have just been 
ordered to another estate; and ere a few months 
shall have elapsed, all signs of cultivation will be 
lost in underwood. 
Higher up stand the sugar-works of Amelia’s 
Waard, solitary and abandoned ! and after passing 
these there is not a ruin to inform the traveller, that 
either coffee or sugar has been cultivated. 
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From Amelia’s Waard, an unbroken range of 
forest covers each bank of the river, saving here arid 
there where a hut discovers itself, inhabited by free 
people of colour, with a rood or two of bared ground 
about it ; or where the wood-cutter has erected him¬ 
self a dwelling, and cleared a few acres for pasturage. 
Sometimes you see level ground on each side of you, 
for two or three hours at a stretch ; at other times, a 
gently sloping hill presents itself; and often, on 
turning a point, the eye is pleased with the contrast 
of an almost perpendicular height jutting into the 
water. The trees put you in mind of an eternal spring, 
with summer and autumn kindly blended into it. 
Here you may see a sloping extent of noble trees, 
whose foliage displays a charming variety of every 
shade, from the lightest to the darkest green and 
