^ Geography of Liberia 



of this there is no very noteworthy promontory on the whole 

 coast till the Cameroons Mountains are reached. Cape Mesurado 

 is a noticeable clifF, and there are some bold bluffs here and 

 there along the Gold Coast, but nothing which can vie with 

 Cape Mount, rising as it does more than a thousand feet straight 

 up from the sea coast, the Gibraltar of Liberia. On the northern 

 seaward face of this steep acclivity is situated Robertsport 



l66. THE SHORE OF FISHERMAN LAKE (CAPE MOUNT) 



(Wakoro), the Americo-Liberian settlement. On the coast 

 for two or three miles round the shoreward face of the mountain 

 is a succession of small settlements, either native or Liberian, 

 The mission station of the American Episcopal Mission and 

 the factories or places of business of the foreign merchants are 

 on the inner shore facing Gambia Island. 



It is difficult to understand how such a splendid site as 

 this mountainous peninsula with its spacious lagoon on the east 

 and half-formed seaport on the wes.t did not tempt the nucleus 



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