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belong, one to the baptists, the other to the methodists ; the former having 

 three and the latter five preachers, all well-informed and intelligent men of 

 colour, residing amongst the colonists, and engaged in trade : nothing is paid 

 by the people for religious instruction. Five German missionaries, some 

 ministers and teachers also reside there, and sometimes preach in the 

 methodist chapel. 



A commercial institution is established at Monrovia, with a capital of 

 4000 dollars, and with the agreement that there shall be no dividend until 

 the capital is raised to 20,000 dollars. In a single year the stocks rose from 

 50 to 75 dollars. 



It has been stated, that the climate is very unhealthy, — which is indeed 

 true with respect to the whites, but not to the men of colour. Those of 

 the northern and southern states have what is called the disease of the 

 climate, that is to say, they are generally attacked by fever during the first 

 month of their residence ; but this leads to no bad result, owing to precau- 

 tions which have been taken for their reception. The emigrants from 

 Georgia, the two Carolines, and the southern parts of Virginia, escape this 

 inconvenience, or are but slightly affected. Deaths are not more frequent 

 than elsewhere ; and the chief agent, Dr Mechlin, has even assured me that 

 the number of deaths were proportionally inferior to that of Baltimore, 

 Philadelphia, and New York Warden, Bull, de la Soc. de Geog. xv. 1. 



Morocco Lieutenant Washington, R.N. communicated to a late meet- 

 ing of the Royal Geographical Society, a geographical and topographical 

 memoir on the empire of Morocco, and the result of observations made by 

 him in October — December 1829, when accompanying a mission to the 

 court of the Sultan, headed by Mr Drvimmond Hay, his Majesty's consul- 

 general in the empire. The route was first along the sea-shore as far as 

 Azamor, near Cape Blanco, and thence across the country direct for the 

 imperial city, where the mission was hospitably and respectfully received, 

 and lodged in one of the sultan's palaces for a month. On returning, Mr 

 Drummond Hay obtained permission to ascend the Atlas as far as might be 

 practicable for the snow ; and this forms, accordingly, the chief deviation 

 from the ordinary route pursued by all travellers who have made this 

 journey. But great attention was paid throughout to the determination of 

 positions and heights ; noting at the same time minutely the geological 

 character of the country. And thus, aided by a careful incorporation of the 

 best materials at home, (particularly the charts of the coast constructed by 

 the late Captain Boteler, of the navy, who was employed to survey it,) Mr 

 Washington is persuaded that the map accompanying his memoir, and also 

 presented by him to the society, with a perpendicular section annexed to it, 

 shewing the level, is very much the most correct which has yet been compiled 

 of this empire, the physical features of which are sufficiently remarkable. 

 From the sea to the foot of Mount Atlas, the land stretches away above 

 150 miles, apparently on about a dead level ; but at the city of Morocco, 16 

 miles distant from the mountains, the height was ascertained to be 1200 

 feet ; and on an attentive examination, three different steps, or breaks, in 

 the continuity of the plain, may be detected, by which altogether, although 

 the ascent is in each easy, the above height is attained. The soil is light 

 and dry, being chiefly sandstone, and the aspect is generally parched and 

 barren. Wherever water runs, however, — and there is abundance of it, were 

 it but distributed, — the most exuberant fertility is found; and there can be 

 no doubt, that, properly cultivated, its productiveness would be very great. 

 But at present the returns are limited, though all of excellent quality, grain, 

 fruits, and vegetables of all sorts. The wood is generally stunted, not 

 warranting Pliny's accounts of it, and tropical in its character quite to the 

 base of the Atlas, with the eternal snows of which it thus presents a striking 



