Identifier: aroundaboutsouth00vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tyle. Nearthe new Law Courts stands what is styled, par excellence,the Public Building—a large, two-story, stuccoed structure,with a columned front and low central dome, occupying anentire square, and surrounded by neat lawns and pretty shruband flower gardens. Between the Public Building and theriver is the market, an enormous structure of galvanized iron,which would do credit to any city. It occupies an entiresquare. In the central facade is a great clock-tower, whichhas a fine belvedere atop. One half of the interior is ar-ranged as stalls for miscellaneous merchandise, and the re-mainder is occupied by market-women, who crouch upon thefloor with their produce grouped about them, as is their wontall over South America. But comparatively few of thestalls were leased, showing thereby, as their rent is not high,that this great market is rather in advance of the presentrequirements of the city. The finest and largest church inGeorgetown is the Roman Catholic Cathedral, which is built
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A BRITISH COLONY. 377 entirely of wood, and the greater part of it of the hard woodsgrown in the colony. This is the church that has the loftyand highly ornamental spire, which forms a picturesque feat-ure in the general view of the city as obtained from the off-ing. The cathedral, whose architecture is Gothic, has someline stained-glass windows, a high altar of marble and wood,and two good organs. In the post-office building a largeroom contains what is styled the British Guiana Museum —a collection representing the three kingdoms of nature.It is open to the public from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily. Inthe same building are the reading-rooms and library of theRoyal Agricultural and Commercial Society. The rooms arelarge and comfortable, and fully supplied with Europeanperiodicals, while a miscellaneous library of about ten thou-sand volumes lines the walls of one of them. There are threeextensive collections of books in three of the large stores—no store appearing to be devoted to a

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