Around and about South America . en about the streets. The city standson an island, which may be circumnavigated by very smallsteamers and native boats. It is not supplied with roads,and contains numerous small plantations. A good generalview may be had from the walls of the old fort. The appear-ance of the hills to the eastward is exceedingly pretty. Fromhere you may also see the lighthouse on the rock, styled theEnfant Perdu, away to the north; and the range of the KawMountains to the southeast. Access to the far interior isquite difficult. The rivers are mostly small and broken byrapids and
Around and about South America . en about the streets. The city standson an island, which may be circumnavigated by very smallsteamers and native boats. It is not supplied with roads,and contains numerous small plantations. A good generalview may be had from the walls of the old fort. The appear-ance of the hills to the eastward is exceedingly pretty. Fromhere you may also see the lighthouse on the rock, styled theEnfant Perdu, away to the north; and the range of the KawMountains to the southeast. Access to the far interior isquite difficult. The rivers are mostly small and broken byrapids and cataracts. Gold has been found in hill-rangessimilar to the other Guianas, and, though previously it hasonly been worked by washing, now companies are beingformed and crushing machinery introduced, so that miningin earnest, regular, scientific manner may commence. I sawin Cayenne some exceedingly rich specimens of gold quartz,brought from a hundred miles or so up-country. One of the most interesting sights is the great grove of. m :\v 4, A Cayenne Creole. PARAMARIBO AND CAYENNE. 391 palm-trees, Place des Palmistes, or Cabbage-palm Square,as it is locally termed. I was never tired of walking throughthe giant aisles, or admiring them from a distance, whencethej resemble half a dozen of the great palm avenues in theBotanical Gardens of Bio de Janeiro massed together. Thetrees have, of course, been planted in this order, most ofthem more than a century ago. When one of them dies—which is very seldom—its spot is at once replaced by another,though necessarily a smaller one. These splendid palms areabout five hundred in number, with an average height ofeighty feet. They are placed in eight rows, about twentyfeet apart, and perhaps the same distance from each other inthe rows. They are thus sufficiently near to produce theeffect of a stately Titanic hall, with great gray pillars, straightas arrows, supporting a roof of the glossiest of beautiful verd-ure. At one corner of this mag
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