Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — A Land of Wonders. [ARTICLE]

A Land of Wonders.

Boraima is a great table mountain on the borders of British Guiana, whose steep and inaccessible sides rise from the height of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea 20,000 feet sheer into the sapphire tropical sky. This wonderful place is in other respects a marvel of the world. The highest waterfall known tumbles from its summit at one leap of 2,000 feet, and then rushes impetuously 3,000 feet more on a slope of 45 degrees down to the bottom of the valley, broad enough to be seep thirty* miles away. Only two explorers have yet even reached the base of the table, which, it is estimated, is from eight to twelve miles long. “Eliza, my child,” said a prudish old maid to a pretty neicc, who would curl her hair in pretty ringlets, “ if the Lord had intended ycur hair to be curled, he would have done it himself.” “So be did, aunty, when I was a baby, but he thinks I’m big enough now to dq it my self.”