The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . ater trenches. In these nourishes the gorgeous VictoriaRegia lily which, discovered by Haenke in South Americain 1801, was first found in British Guiana on Gluck Islandin the Essequibo. The trenches are also inhabited by awhole colony of frogs, whose whistling and croaking forma rather unmusical accompaniment to the barking of dogsand the crowing of cocks which are features of the so-called still tropical night. The city is well lighted with elec-tricity and is provided
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . ater trenches. In these nourishes the gorgeous VictoriaRegia lily which, discovered by Haenke in South Americain 1801, was first found in British Guiana on Gluck Islandin the Essequibo. The trenches are also inhabited by awhole colony of frogs, whose whistling and croaking forma rather unmusical accompaniment to the barking of dogsand the crowing of cocks which are features of the so-called still tropical night. The city is well lighted with elec-tricity and is provided with an excellent electric tram andtelephone service. It is supplied with water from theLamaha Canal, which connects with the Lamaha, a branchof the Lama Creek, a tributary of the Mahaica, some twentymiles distant. The water is pumped from a reservoir atthe Camp Street waterworks into the service pipes of thecity. Artesian wells have recently been bored with successand form an additional source of water-supply. On landing at the stelling or wharf, one enters WaterStreet, the leading commercial centre of the city, which.
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