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A Voyage To The Demerary, Containing A Statistical Account Of The Settlements There, And Of Those On The Essequebo, The Berbice, And Other Contiguous Rivers Of Guyana.
by BOLINGBROKE, Henry [1785-1855]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
8vo. pp. 120, [4]index. folding engraved map (frontis.). modern bds. (foxing to map & a few leaves). Second Edition, abridged from the first of 1807.An historical and descriptive account of the English colonies of Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo, later called British Guiana, which had been annexed from the Dutch in 1803.Bolingbroke, who was a deputy vendue master at Surinam, was a resident of Stabroek (Demerary) for almost seven years, 1799-1805. Included are sections on geography, natural history, coffee and sugar cultivation, the Dutch plantations, the Van Hoorn Company, local customs, the aboriginals, the practice of slavery, &c. "The author holds the north South American mainland to be more important to Great Britain than the West India islands, and urges that the latter rather than the former be used in future peace settlements which might require territorial cessions. Supports the slave trade." (Ragatz) Sabin 6182n. cfRagatz p. 220.
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- Title
- A Voyage To The Demerary, Containing A Statistical Account Of The Settlements There, And Of Those On The Essequebo, The Berbice, And Other Contiguous Rivers Of Guyana.
- Author
- BOLINGBROKE, Henry [1785-1855]
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed For Richard Phillips By B. McMillan, 1809.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- South-America British Guiana
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- South-America;
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