C’H Ap. Surinam, diftant from Paramaribo, if we include tbe
. *, windings o f the river, above one'hundred miles ; and as
the fituation is pleafant, Ï prefehruhe reader with a view'
of it,Jri‘‘öiepïate annexed, as>alfo o f the village, called thé
Savannah, which is diflant fronafown, in. a|ilr£iight
line,. fomething) more than forty, but by water- abo-ye
fixty Englifh milesïp. Hërethe Jews havé a. beautiful fy-
nagogue,>nd keep their folémn.-falls and fefbiyals Here
they alfo have their capital fchoofe-and feminines, for at
this village relide fome very, refpedtable Jewiih families»
Thefe people poiref^'pdrixcuTar^^htl^arid p r iy lfe g é^n
this colony^ with which -they were endo-vyed -by~ King;
pharies^he^cnpd, when the fefctlement o f .Surinam,'was
Enghfh; andfoch are thefe privileges I never, knew Jews
to poflefs in any other part o f the world whatever-,
From Paramaribo, 'or father |ffom'ih,ei ■ fortfels**N,eyr
Amfterdam, the River Surinam, like thofe o f Cottigaund:
Comawina, is beaptifuRy bprdered with, fugar ahdb,ëpfïhey
plantations, as are alio feveral creeks or fmall rivers that"
communicateyvith it; fuqh as th e Pawfus. the PJ*^,'thei
Crppinay_and the Pararac creeks; but above Mount Par-
naifus not a lingle effate, that may be fa called, is'to b e ’
found; neither is the river any longer navigable,fèv é^
for fmall craft, on .account o f the prodigious rocks, and
cascades or water-fanS, with which it’ is^óhftni^éaas it
winds through exeeffively high mountains and: aiï impenetrable
foreft. While therefore they form an enchant- j
- ingly romantic fcene to the eye, thefe' natural .bulwark»;
prevent