Guiana

British, a British colony in the N. E. part of South America; bounded by Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela, and the Atlantic Ocean; area, 109,000 square miles; capital, George town. The surface of the country is diversified with low savannahs near the coast and mountainous toward the S. The chief products are gold, sugar, mola es, balata, rum, and rice. There are railroads, steamship communications with Great Britain and telegraph and telephone systems. Columbus is said to have discovered the Guianas in 1498. In 1895 there was trouble between Great Britain and Venezuela concerning the Guiana boundary. The United States intervened, and a Commi ion of Arbitration gave a decision practically favorable to Venezuela. Pop. 286,222.