The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . h Colonies Foreign countries . CLIMATE. The climate of British Guiana comparesfavourably with that of other tropical countries, and is byno means so unhealthy as people at home have been led tobelieve. The temperature is uniform, rarely rising above]92° Fahr. or falling below 75° Fahr. The mean annualstemperature of Georgetown is 82° Fahr., and the averagerainfall of the colony about 90 inches. On the high landsin the interior the climate is not unlike that of BritishEa
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . h Colonies Foreign countries . CLIMATE. The climate of British Guiana comparesfavourably with that of other tropical countries, and is byno means so unhealthy as people at home have been led tobelieve. The temperature is uniform, rarely rising above]92° Fahr. or falling below 75° Fahr. The mean annualstemperature of Georgetown is 82° Fahr., and the averagerainfall of the colony about 90 inches. On the high landsin the interior the climate is not unlike that of BritishEast Africa. The long rainy season lasts from about themiddle of April until August, and the short rainy seasonthrough December and January. The birth-rate is the death-rate per 1000. HISTORY. The history of Guiana is interesting fromthe fact that it was one of the first countries in whichEnglishmen attempted to settle. The name is derived froman Indian word meaning water, which was given to theregion extending from the River Orinoco to the 1498, when on his third voyage, Columbus, after sighting.
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