BRITISIL SETTLEMENT


sound made in passing, being quickly
loudly reverberated, is forcibly calculated
to strike the ear with a feeling of solemn
grandeur.
 The caves are thought by some to have
been produced by the labour of the In-
dians: hence the name of the water
which finds its course through them; but
this conjecture stands divested of every
probability to support it. When the
waters are at the lowest, the solitary re-
cesses of the caves are the chosen haunts
of many animals of prey, of which the
tiger may be most frequently traced.
 There are two seasons in the year for
the cutting of mahogany : the first com-
mencing shortly after Christmas, or at
the conclusion of what is termed the wet
season, the other about the middle of the
year. At such periods all is activity, and
the falling of trees, or the trucking out
those that have been fallen, form the
chief employment. Some of the wood is