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Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 7: February, 1832
The Commissioners admit that there is much good soil in the valleys of the Peninsula, though the more sterile land of the mountains had been in judiciously selected for the liberated African villages, thus subjecting these poor people to additional and unnecessary difficulties. P. 6, Sec. They admit also, that the harbor of Sierra Leone is of the inost secure and commodious description, and gives to Freetown a great facility for trade, possessed by few situations Upon the coast, and probably by none, in an equal degree, (p. And that Freetown, as well as the rest of the Peninsula, enjoys an advantage which none of the other settlements possess, in a constant and plentiful supply of excellent water, (p. And has, besides, some important advantages over the other settlements. (p. 108) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
