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The lianas of Landolphias, which produce so much of the rubber, 

 grow up tall trees and extend sometimes three or four hundred 

 feet along their tops. The rope-like stems of these creepers 

 are as much as nine inches in diameter, the slenderest probably 

 being about three inches. 



Rubber abounds not only where it has been seen by the 

 officials of the Company, but right through the vast forests of 



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the interior. The method of treating the rubber at present is 

 somewhat crude, but the quality, although it is not considered 

 the best on the market, is very fair, and, barring a certain un- 

 pleasant odour, is equal to the average rubber exported from 

 the West Coast of Africa. 



Hitherto rubber-collecting in Liberia has been merely in 

 its infancy, but the Liberian Rubber Corporation is making 

 rapid strides towards opening up stations throughout the country 



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