Liberia <^ 



River a new town or settlement was founded, to which Ashmurt 

 gave the name of Caldwell in honour of Elijah Caldwell, the 

 Secretary of the Colonisation Society. A station called New 



47. LAST RAPIDS OF THE ST. PAUL S RIVER, TWENTY MILES FROM ITS MOUTH 



Georgia was made near the Stockton Creek as a depot for the 

 receiving and planting out of freed slaves who might come as 

 refugees. 



Ashmun's health was better in 1825. He had begun to 

 receive proper appreciation of his work in the United States, 

 and had won the affection and respect in Liberia of the Negro 

 colonists. Something approaching gaiety in this year tinges 



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