GEORGETOWN (formerly Stabröck), the capital of British Guiana, is situated on the E. bank of the Demerara, at its mouth, which is there about 3 miles wide, in N. Lat. 6. 49. 30.; W. Long. 58. 11. 30. The town itself is one of the prettiest in the West Indies; and its streets are wide and straight, intersecting each other at right angles. The houses are of wood, with open verandahs in front, and neatly painted in cool and quiet colours; they are shaded and almost hidden by trees and shrubs, and look more like a collection of villas than a town. The street along the river side—where all the stores and shops are situated, and where business is chiefly transacted—forms, however, an exception; there everything is plain, bare, and business-like. The ships lie alongside the wharfs or at a short distance in the stream, which is also crowded with numerous smaller vessels engaged in the island trade, or in bringing produce from the more distant estates. The hall of the legislative council, courts of justice, custom-house, treasury, and all the other public offices, are in one building of considerable extent and architectural beauty, with shady porticoes and marble-paved galleries or verandahs supported on cast-iron columns. The chief of the other public edifices are the cathedral and churches, several liberally maintained hospitals, barracks, market-place, and ice-house. Below the town is the "Fort," as it is called, but which looks more like a green field, with a few guns pointing towards the sea, and a house or two for a single officer and a dozen artillerymen. Pop. (1851) 25,508.