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in parts very mountainous. No fresh-water lake has as yet 

 been discovered, nor has any traveller yet lighted on a large 

 area of marsh. The coast belt is a Httle broken up by lagoons, 

 but it does not degenerate into those extensive mangrove swamps 

 intersected by countless creeks which are so characteristic of 

 the Ivory and Slave Coasts. The rainfall is very heavy, perhaps 

 an average hundred inches per annum, rising in some districts 



12. ARUMS ON THE BORDERS OF A STREAM 



to one hundred and fifty inches, and in the northern plateau 

 country decreasing to seventy inches. Rain falls in every month 

 of the year, but the true rainy season begins in May and 

 ends in November. The coolest month is possibly August, in 

 the middle of the rainy season ; the hottest, December. Except 

 no doubt on those lofty mountains scarcely as yet explored 

 by Europeans, the temperature throughout Liberia is high 



