Africa and its inhabitants . s the discharge of several inland streams. But in the absence of fresh sjjringwater, the inhabitants have to depeiul on cisterns, or to draw their supplies fromthe interior. The town is laid out in the regular American style, the chiefthoroughfares running coat and west at right angles with the by-streeta. Butthe stone or wooden houses are not continuous, being built at considenible intervals,with intervening courts and gardens planted with cocoa-nut palms aud finer quarters are centred on the higher aud more salubrious grounds near tliofortit/cations w
Africa and its inhabitants . s the discharge of several inland streams. But in the absence of fresh sjjringwater, the inhabitants have to depeiul on cisterns, or to draw their supplies fromthe interior. The town is laid out in the regular American style, the chiefthoroughfares running coat and west at right angles with the by-streeta. Butthe stone or wooden houses are not continuous, being built at considenible intervals,with intervening courts and gardens planted with cocoa-nut palms aud finer quarters are centred on the higher aud more salubrious grounds near tliofortit/cations which command the roadstead. 224 WEST AFEICA. A steamer penetrating from Monrovia through Stoclvton Creek northwards to theSt. Paul River at Caldwell, keeps up the communications with all the sugar andother plantations lining the banks of this artery. Here all the groups of housesbear some American historic or geographic name, such as Virginia, Clay-Ashland, Pig. 95.—Monrovia and the Lower St. Patjl 1 : 480, lO°?otWeat oT ureenwich lO-W 0to32Feet. 32 to 64Feet. C4 Feet iindupwaids. ? 6 Miles. Kentucky, New York. Mi/kbimj, the Muhlenburg of the German missionaries, hasalso some plantations and small factories on the rapids of the St. Paul. But theMandingan traders, who avoid all contact with the despised Americans, andprefer to deal directly with the natives, have chosen as their depot the town ofVamwah, situated in the marshy district a few miles west of the river. Here they LrBERIA. 225 have a scho,.l a ,iue, and from (bis place runs a well-kept highway across theforests to IJaporo. At Bojrh, alwut (iO miles fro7u the eoasl, this roadcrosses another running south-west through Sttbhim, capital of the Gola territory, toFishermans Lake. These trade routes have a normal breadth of from 6 to 7 valleys of the St. Paul, hiduM-to visited by only one explorer, seemdestined to become one of the most flourishing regions in Africa.
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