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morning, the 1st of August, we set out in two little carriages, 

 each drawn by four negroes, (here also the common way of 

 travelling for Europeans) for Danish Accra, where we called 

 on Mr. Richter, a Danish merchant, and accompanied by 

 him visited the Danish Governor, Mr. Dall, to whom Mr. 

 Richter and Mr. McLean introduced us. 



The fortifications here are not important, they consist of 

 a few large houses, with lofty, airy rooms surrounded by a 

 wall and breastwork, and are inhabited by the Europeans. 

 They are white-washed and conspicuous at a great distance. 

 The Danish fort is classic ground for a botanist, for here 

 Isert and Thonning made the collection, through which we 

 became acquainted with this Flora. The humane spirit of 

 Isert, so warmly expressed in his writings on behalf of the 

 negroes rendered this place highly interesting to me, and 

 the more so, as we were engaged in an enterprize, aiming at 

 the objects, which he had endeavoured to attain during the 

 latter years of his life. I inquired anxiously after his esta- 

 blishments in the interior, but could obtain no official infor- 

 mation about them. After Isert's decease, they had gone 

 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 a 

 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, that it was not extensive, and the superintendent 

 being ill, it could not be in a very satisfactory state. The 

 distance is fourteen or fifteen miles, the only mode of getting 



