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to decay. Mr. de Khon, who is said to have assumed the 
management, and introduced the plough, and is represented 
in various works which I have read, to have effected so 
much, never came here, as Mr. Richter and the Danish 
Governor positively assured me! Since his time, indeed, 
no one took any trouble about these plantations ; and about 
1808, they were altogether given up. Every thing is now à 
wilderness, and the place not to be recognised. Flindt esta- 
blished about this time, another plantation on the River 
Volta near the Fort, the main object being distillation : but 
this was soon discontinued. About ten years ago, I believe 
another plantation was formed at the foot of the mountain 
in Aquafim, named “ Frederic's Gau;" and as we wished to 
visit it, Mr. Dall had the kindness to indulge us; but he 
told us it was not extensive, and the superintendent 
being ill, it could not bein a very satisfactory state. The 
distance is fourteen or fifteen miles : the only mode of getting 
there is in a sort of palanquin or basket, carried by two 
poles, on the head of two or four negroes. Mr. Dall, by 
providing abundantly for all our wants, 
to amount to about sixteen persons. The direction, accord- 
ing to compass, was almost exactly N. by E. We started 
at half past eleven o'clock, The fir 
the way leads through Savannahs, 
Cyperacee, intermixed with man 
halfshrubby Leguminose, besides a few Malvacee, and |. 
some tall, but more generally only moderately high trees, 
viz: Bombax, the genus which I mentioned at Cape Coast 
as perhaps related to Crescentia,* Ficus, Fan-palms, Euphorbia 
drupifera, very conspicuous from its naked spur-like branches, 
bearing only a few stiff inversely spathulate leaves at the 
extreme points, and near the villages and huts Tamarinds 
i opulneus. Towards the coast, the soil is sandy 
like decomposed sandstone; but soon improves, from the 
culture of Indian Corn, Cassava, Yams, Arachis, various 
sorts of Cucumbers, and Bananas. Cocoas are little culti- 
* May it not be the Bignonia tulipifera, Schumacher ? 
caused our cortège 
st and greatest part of 
covered with Grasses and 
y species of shrubby and 
