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Berbice

American  
[bur-bees] / bɜrˈbis /

noun

  1. a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.


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The venture will focus drilling this year on the Corentyne block, the most promising of its three blocks, including Demerara and Berbice.

From Reuters May 6, 2022

Helen is related to the Camerons of Glen Nevis: John Cameron, her great, great, great-grandfather, came to Berbice in the early 1800s and set up a plantation with his kinsman Donald Charles Cameron.

From The Guardian Apr. 16, 2019

I tell her about Cromarty and she laughs at the pronunciation of a well-known place from her childhood, near Cotton Tree in Berbice.

From The Guardian Apr. 16, 2019

After emigrating from Berbice, Guyana, in 1987, he began tending to the birds belonging to the elder statesmen in the park.

From New York Times Jul. 31, 2015

If Berbice held no other attraction it would be worth visiting to see this garden.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William

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