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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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st from the sea one notesfirst the tall chimneys of sugar factories and occasional tall treesbefore any other sign of land is visible. Next to this coastal region there is a broad belt of higher somewhatundulating land interspersed with sand dunes and clay hills, but ofscarcely more than 200 feet elevation anywhere. Still farther southand west there is a series of plateaus 1,200 to 2,000 feet in altitude.When streams descend from one plateau to another there are umli. i ...., ..i/.n«,i»t, ,i.i . p.ji i . — 1 An account of the itinerary will be found in the Journal of the New York BotanicalGarden, July, 1920. 2 Much of the statistical matter is taken from the British Guiana Handbook for 1913,the second and last edition. 12573 °—21 20 293 294 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. gorges and waterfalls. One of the most beautiful of the falls isKaieteur Falls, 741 feet high and 400 feet wide. The only mountainsas distinguished from hills lie on the border in the region where
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Fig. 1.—South. America, showing position of British Guiana, British Guiana, Venezuela, and Brazil join. The culminating peaksare Roraima and Kukenaam, table mountains with precipitous sidesrising 5,000 feet above the plateau and reaching an altitude of about FLOBA OF BRITISH GUIANA—HITCHCOCK. 295 8,600 feet. The general level of the savanna region in the southernpart of the Colony is only about 300 to 400 feet. The region was first settled by the Dutch at Kyk-over-al about1615. This place is a little island a few miles above Bartica in theMazaruni Eiver near Kartabo. Settlements were later made on theEssequibo, Demerara, and Berbice Eivers, which grew into colonies.These passed to Great Britain about 1815 and were united into thecolony of British Guiana in 1831. The names of the original coloniesare preserved in the names of the counties into which the Colonyis divided. The county of Essequibo includes the drainage systemof the Essequibo Eiver and the coastal region west to Venezu

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