GUIANA

an extensive region in Sout! America between the Orinoco and th Amazon. It is divided into five parts three of which are colonies po e ed by Bogiland, Holland, and France respectively: The whole territory consists of a low fertile, and rather unhealthy coast plain o alluvial soil, varying in width from It to 40 miles, backed by uplands covere with laxuriant forests of tropical trees ® British Guiana, obtained from th by treaty in 1814, has an area o 104,000 square miles and a nee ° 280, of which 17,000 are Buropeans Its tal ia Georgetown, Sugar, ram timber, gold, and various gums are ex poe Dutch Guiana in a ey condition; its chief town Paramaribo..(3) French Guiana, capita to | Cayenne, exports pepper, cloves, nut e | sad other spices, te ued ana 1 | settlement. x | « [s. 163]