Africa and its inhabitants . .^ s cjiifiiiiliiluliiiliikliliiiiiiiii THE J>OWER (.UX(iU. J31 1,000 feet above the stream ; iu some jjlaces the water sdll flows over perceptiliKrapids, then at a sudden turn fills the so-called Devils t-auldron, an al) feet deep, encircled by vertical red clay walls, where the licjuid mass ischurned round incessantly, forming in some places secondary eddies 12 or 14 feet Fig. 21o.—The Devils Cauldko^ 1 : 90, in Suddenly, after parsing an isiaud whul, h-n a ^^^^^r^,p, to block the way. the enU-rs it. eMuary ^^^<
Africa and its inhabitants . .^ s cjiifiiiiliiluliiiliikliliiiiiiiii THE J>OWER (.UX(iU. J31 1,000 feet above the stream ; iu some jjlaces the water sdll flows over perceptiliKrapids, then at a sudden turn fills the so-called Devils t-auldron, an al) feet deep, encircled by vertical red clay walls, where the licjuid mass ischurned round incessantly, forming in some places secondary eddies 12 or 14 feet Fig. 21o.—The Devils Cauldko^ 1 : 90, in Suddenly, after parsing an isiaud whul, h-n a ^^^^^r^,p, to block the way. the enU-rs it. eMuary ^^^<^^-^ toiii IZI^nd ;;.udba.;ks:where a granite rock on the left a« the Feti^Stone, marks the former limit of the uavigaliou for « ve« 432 WEST AFRICA. Towards the middle of the estuary, the distance from shore to shore exceeds 10miles; but as it approaches the sea the current again contracts, the chief branchbeing less than 4 miles wide, while the waters on both sides ramify into a thousandtidal channels. At the mouth the distance from point to point is nearly 7 mUes,and in some places no less than 1,000 feet deep. Here the Banana approach,nearly 20 feet deep at low water, runs athwart the stream in the direction fromnorth-east to south-west in continuation of two sandy spits, on one side thepeninsula of Banana, on the other Shark Point, or Cape Santo-Antonio. Onmost modern maps the most advanced headland south-west of this p
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