Africa and its inhabitants . between the Tolta and the Niger are oflarge size, their parallel basins being everywhere confined within narrow the dry season most of them fail to reach the sea, discharging into thecoast lagoons without being able to force a passage through the intervening after the rains the overflow of the lagoons finds an exit, breaking the shore-line ttow at one point now at another. The channel at Lagos, forming the outlet 253 WEST AFEICA. for a considerable coast stream and for lagoons fed by several affluents, aloneremains open throughout the year.
Africa and its inhabitants . between the Tolta and the Niger are oflarge size, their parallel basins being everywhere confined within narrow the dry season most of them fail to reach the sea, discharging into thecoast lagoons without being able to force a passage through the intervening after the rains the overflow of the lagoons finds an exit, breaking the shore-line ttow at one point now at another. The channel at Lagos, forming the outlet 253 WEST AFEICA. for a considerable coast stream and for lagoons fed by several affluents, aloneremains open throughout the year. The river Ogun, the largest of these affluents,rises probably some 180 miles inland, and receives numerous tributaries beforeleaving the uplands. The Great Popo Channel is also generally open, while atother points the natives frequently cut passages for their boats between the lagoonsand the sea. Most maps represent the Togo district as almost entirely occupied by Lake Fig. 112.—Shoee-Line East of Lagos. Scale 1 : Last of Gr-eenwicl- 5°-i0 0to64Feet. Depths. 64 to 640Feet. 640 Feet andupwards. 12 lines. Avon, an inland sea 1,200 square miles in extent, and so called from the Englishvessel which surveyed this coast in 1846. But the size of the Haho, as the nativescall it, from its chief influent, has been strangely exaggerated, for it is scarcelymore than 6 miles long in any direction. The Nokhwe, or Lake Denham, west ofPorto-Novo, is also much smaller than it appears on the maps, while the largestof all these coast lagoons is Ikoradu, which with its numerous ramifications hasgiven the Portuguese name of Lagos, or the Lakes, to the town at its seaward THE SLA-S-E COAST. 259 eutranco. These lagoons form a continuous waterway, which might be easily
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