OF HIONDURAS.


logwood, were abandoned at the com-
mencement of our recent hostility with
Spain. The immediate contiguity of these
rivers to the possessions of the latter, and
the insecurity that might have attended
the unprotected settler in his employment,
no doubt suggested the expediency of this,
Our establishments of this kind were more
particularly confined to the Rio-Neuvo,
and Rio-Honda, each of them a very short
distance from the principal settlement,
and both navigable for vessels of consider-
able burthen.
 About thirty miles up the Balize, on
its banks, are found, what in this country
are denominated, the Indian-hills. These
are small eminences,which are supposed to
have been raised by the aborigines over
their dead, human bones and fragments
of a coarse kind of earthen-ware, being
frequently dug from them. The Indian-
hills are seldom discovered but in the im-
mediate vicinity of rivers or creeks, a