The Republic of Liberia . GEOGRAPHY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION IT set in gardens gay with scarlet blooming acacias, stronglyscented pink oleanders, quaintly foliaged bread-fruit,arums, bananas, and many other interesting and orna-mental forms of tropical vegetation. Fifty or sixty miles to the westward, and passing onour way the estuary of the Dukwia and FarmingtonRivers, which, swollen by the waters of the Junk, flowinto the sea past the settlement of Marshall, we come toMonrovia, the capital of Liberia, perched picturesquelyupon the bold promontory of Cape Mesurado, or Mont-serrado as it was ca
The Republic of Liberia . GEOGRAPHY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION IT set in gardens gay with scarlet blooming acacias, stronglyscented pink oleanders, quaintly foliaged bread-fruit,arums, bananas, and many other interesting and orna-mental forms of tropical vegetation. Fifty or sixty miles to the westward, and passing onour way the estuary of the Dukwia and FarmingtonRivers, which, swollen by the waters of the Junk, flowinto the sea past the settlement of Marshall, we come toMonrovia, the capital of Liberia, perched picturesquelyupon the bold promontory of Cape Mesurado, or Mont-serrado as it was called in the days of the early settlers,and some three or four miles to the east of the mouth ofthe St. Paul River. The last-named stream, under the name of the Diani,is understood to rise in the French Soudan, where thecountry, having from various causes freed itself fromthe appalling coastward burden of impenetrable forest,rises into a high, fertile, park-like plateau, and is generallyreferred to as the Mandingo Country.
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