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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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about 35 per thousand among the population as a whole,but only 14.8 among the whites. On account of the drainage systemand the open canals it is difficult to protect the lower class of thepopulation largely made up of East Indians and Negroes. The industries are mainly agricultural, though the production ofgold and diamonds is of some importance. There are large de-posits of bauxite (an oxide of aluminum) which are just commenc-ing to be exploited. Timber is also an important minor industry.There are many kinds of woods exported, the best known probablybeing the greenheart (Nectandra rodioei), a wood much used forpiles, lock gates, and other structures in contact with salt water, be- 298 ANNUAL, KEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. cause the wood is resistant to the teredo. Another product thatcomes within the domain of forestry is the balata, a substance re-sembling gutta percha obtained from the milky juice of a nativeforest tree (Mimusops globosa). The trees are bled in about the
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same manner as the rubber tree. Rubber itself is not gathered fromthe wild trees in appreciable amounts. The agricultural industries occupy the chief place in the life andcommerce of the country. Of these by far the most important isthe production of sugar. This has always been a valuable productsince the early days of the colony, but during the war it assumed FLORA OF BRITISH GUIANA—HITCHCOCK. 299 a greater importance because of the conditions favorable to increasedprofit. Sugar and its by-products constitute about three-fourthsthe value of all exports. The sugar plantations are found along thecoast in the alluvial plain from the Pomeroon district to the Couran-tyne River and along the rivers for a few miles above where theyempty into the sea. Especially are the sugar plantations found alongthe East Coast, the coast east of Georgetown, and the WestCoast, the coast between the Demerara and Essequibo rivers, andthe East Bank of the Demerara, for a few miles south of George-town. In r

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