The trees which form these far-extending wilds are as useful as they are
ornamental. It would take a volume of itself to describe them.

The green-heart, famous for its hardness and durability; the hackea for its
toughness; the ducalabali surpassing mahogany; the ebony and letter-wood
vying with the choicest woods of the old world; the locust-tree yielding
copal; and the hayawa- and olou-trees furnishing a sweet-smelling resin,
are all to be met with in the forest betwixt the plantations and the rock
Saba.

Beyond this rock the country has been little explored, but it is very
probable that these, and a vast collection of other kinds, and possibly
many new species, are scattered up and down, in all directions, through the
swamps and hills and savannas of _ci-devant_ Dutch Guiana.

On viewing the stately trees around him, the naturalist will observe many
of them bearing leaves and blossoms and fruit not their own.

The wild fig-tree, as large as a common English apple-tree, often rears
itself from one of the thick branches at the top of the mora, and when its
fruit is ripe, to it the birds resort for nourishment. It was to an
undigested seed passing through the body of the bird which had perched on
the mora that the fig-tree first owed its elevated station there. The sap
of the mora raised it into full bearing, but now, in its turn, it is doomed
to contribute a portion of its own sap and juices towards the growth of
different species of vines, the seeds of which also the birds deposited on
its branches. These soon vegetate, and bear fruit in great quantities; so
what with their usurpation of the resources of the fig-tree, and the fig-
tree of the mora, the mora, unable to support a charge which nature never
intended it should, languishes and dies under its burden; and then the fig-