Liberia ^ 



Negro population is guessed at something under two millions. 

 The Americo-Liberian settlers are limited as residents to portions 

 of the coast districts and the lower courses of the St. Paul's and 

 Cavalla Rivers. 



A narrow belt all along the coast is land more or less cleared 

 of tall forest, except in the vicinity of rivers, or in a few 

 patches of uninhabited country. At a distance of from ten to 

 forty miles inland dense forests begin, which (except for native 



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clearings) cover nearly the whole ot Liberia except a small 

 portion in the extreme north, which is a grassy, park-like country. 

 Liberia, in fact, is the culmination of the forest region of West 

 Africa. Nowhere else are the forests so thick and luxuriant 

 and so unsubdued by man, perhaps not even in the north- 

 eastern portion of the Congo Free State. 



The interior of Liberia is still the least known part of 

 Africa. The surface of the land is nearly everywhere hilly, and 



