THE GUIANAS 
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southern border, also forming the western 
boundary of French Guiana. 
The topography of all of these possessions 
is similar. Toward the interior are moun 
tains whose watershed forms many small rivers 
and creeks flowing toward the Atlantic. Be 
tween the mountains and the ocean are broad 
fields or savannahs, millions of acres in extent, 
which gradually terminate in the low lands 
near the sea. In the highlands and toward the 
mountains of the interior the climate is spring 
like, but it is always very warm along the 
coast, the temperature being about 8o° Fahren 
heit, the entire year. There is much rainfall 
—100 inches being the annual average. 
British Guiana covers an area of 90,277 
square miles, with a population of about 300,- 
000, composed of about 160,000 coolies, im 
ported by contract from India and under the 
supervision of the British government, the re 
mainder being white, black and mixed breeds. 
The native Indians have never been counted 
owing to the inaccessible location of their 
settlements. The East Indians were brought