. A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England . d cultivated,^ould, in my opinion, be equal in falubrity,and fuperior in produ(5lions, to any of theC 3 Weft 22 L E T T E R IL Weft India iflands.—In coming in fromthe fea in the dry feafon few profpeds canexceed the entrance into Sierra-Leone you is the high land of Sierra-Leone rifing from the Cape with the moftapparent gentle afcent. Perpe
. A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England . d cultivated,^ould, in my opinion, be equal in falubrity,and fuperior in produ(5lions, to any of theC 3 Weft 22 L E T T E R IL Weft India iflands.—In coming in fromthe fea in the dry feafon few profpeds canexceed the entrance into Sierra-Leone you is the high land of Sierra-Leone rifing from the Cape with the moftapparent gentle afcent. Perpetual verdurereigns over the whole extent, and the va-riegated foliage of the different trees, withthe {hades caufed by the projeding hillsand unequal fummits, add greatly to thebeauty of the fcene. The flopes of the lefTer hills have the ap-pearance of ahigh degree of cultivation, arifingfrom the trads of land, which had beencultivated for two or three preceding years,but were now covered with thick underwoodand rank weeds, that, at a diftance, give it theappearance of pafture or pleafure grounds;particularly as large fingle trees, for whichthe natives have a veneration, are leftftanding . in different places, while the newly JJi !M.
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