Excerpt from British Guiana British guiana, although the largest of our West India Colonies, is yet, perhaps, the least known of any; even in parliament and in some of the public papers it is occasionally called an island, whereas it forms a part, and in fact the only part, of the entire Continent of South America which belongs to Grea Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.