a country of Guiana, which extends about 75 miles along a river of the same name, in N. Lat. 6. 16. This river is navigable for 90 miles up the country. The chief productions of Surinam are, wood for dyeing, indigo, cotton, sugar, tobacco, gums, and different species of fruit. Prodigious numbers of monkeys infest the woods, as well as very large serpents. This settlement was ceded to the Dutch in 1674, as an equivalent for New York, but was retaken by the British in 1799. Paramaribo is the capital. N. Lat. 6. 16. W. Long. 56. 0. The productions of this country, when in the hands of the Dutch, yielded, in the year 1775, the sum of 822,925l. sterling; and it may be presumed that the value of these will not diminish in the hands of its present proprietors. Population about 100,000 persons.

Demerara.—Connected with Surinam we may notice the colony of Demerara, which surrendered to the British troops in 1783; was taken soon after by a French frigate, and afterwards recaptured by the forces of Great Britain. Its productions cleared from the port of Demerara from January 1806 to the fame month of 1807, were 19,337 hogheads, 474 tierces, and 801 barrels of sugar; 4722 puncheons and 17 hogheads of rum; 23,634 bales, two bags of cotton ; 12,392,102 pounds of coffee; and 1694 casks of molasses; a produce which we hope will be constantly increasing under the mild and humane conduct of the British government, by the troops of which it was last taken in 1796, under Sir Ralph Abercromby. It is deemed a valuable acquisition, on account of its flourishing condition. Stabroek is the capital of Demerara.

Esequibo, on the banks of a river of the same name, was first founded in 1698, but came into the hands of the British much about the same time with the preceding. The unaccountable neglect shewn by Holland towards her colonies rendered them an easy conquest.

Berbice is situated between Demerara and Surinam, containing about 104 small plantations, scattered at considerable distances from each other, the produce of which was long ago valued at 50,000l. sterling, but may be expected to have a rapid increase. Population between 8000 and 9000 persons of various descriptions.

Pomeroon is a country which has a rich and fertile soil; yet the inhabitants chiefly confine themselves to the cultivation of cotton, for the produce of which it is found to be admirably adapted. It is not so well fitted to yield good crops of coffee or sugar, as the land is by far too rich, and strongly impregnated with saline matters. In 1799 and 1800; a thirst for planting cotton was greatly increased, as the crops of that article were then the largest ever known to be produced in the colonies.