. The geology of the goldfields of British Guiana. ad plain or savannah,elevated about 300 feet above sea-level, in which, in the vicinityof and bordering upon the many streams by which it is watered,are patches of woodlands. From tlie Kanuku Mountains southwardsto about six miles from the sources of the Takatu and fiom that livereastwards to a considerable distance beyond the Rupununi there is anextensive and undulating elevated savannah with similar patches ofwoods along the valleys of the many streams by which it is this the extreme southern part of the colony is entirely for
. The geology of the goldfields of British Guiana. ad plain or savannah,elevated about 300 feet above sea-level, in which, in the vicinityof and bordering upon the many streams by which it is watered,are patches of woodlands. From tlie Kanuku Mountains southwardsto about six miles from the sources of the Takatu and fiom that livereastwards to a considerable distance beyond the Rupununi there is anextensive and undulating elevated savannah with similar patches ofwoods along the valleys of the many streams by which it is this the extreme southern part of the colony is entirely forest-clad. PRINCIPAL topo<;kaphical looking at the map of the colony the most striking features init are the many lai-ge rivers by which the country is ti-aversed, andthe numerous tributaries and branch-streams by which it is copiouslywatered, together forming a vast net-work of waterways over the colonywhich, in the absence of roads, furnish a ready, if somewhat ditticult,means of access to the inteiior. l^To face page 10, Plate KAIET EU R FALL (iX KAINY season),SHOWING CONGLOMERATE LEDGE AND CAVE. Fkoto hi/ C. IT. Anderson. To face pay; U.] Platk 3.
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