4- ON THE ST. PAUL'S RIVER 



LIBERIA 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTORY 



LIBERIA is a portion of the West African coast-lands between 

 Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, which may be styled 

 the end of Northern Guinea. Its most easterly point on 

 the coast, the mouth of the Cavalla River, just beyond Cape 

 Palmas, is in longitude 7°33' W. of Greenwich. The western- 

 most point of Liberia (at the mouth of the River Mano) lies in 

 about N. latitude 6°55', and in W. longitude ii°32'. In the 

 interior, Liberian territory extends northwards to about 8°5o' N. 

 latitude. The trend of the coast from the mouth of the River 

 Mano is in a south-easterly direction, and at the entrance to the 

 Cavalla, near Cape Palmas, reaches to within 4°2 2' of the Equator. 



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