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II. Observations on the Natural History of Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

William Lochead Esq.
Affiliation:
Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh.

Extract

Dear Sir,

Allow me at present to trouble you with a few general observations on natural history, which I had an opportunity of making while on a botanical excursion, with my friend Mr Anderson, to the Dutch colony of Demerary. Guiana is a country but little known in Europe, though its animals and vegetables have added considerably to the catalogue of natural productions. It is not however the organic kingdom which I mean at present to touch upon; all I aim at is to give you some idea of the face of the country, as leading to the knowledge of its formation and present state. It is not a field for the mineralogist, as its interior is unexplored. But to the geologist, who wishes to trace revolutions of the latest date, it is not uninteresting to contemplate such a recent and singular country as Guiana.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1798

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References

page 58 note * Account of the Ganges, &c. Phil. Trans. 1781, by M. Rennell.