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of Grand Basa, a bay which with but little work in the 

 way of breakwaters might become a very decent harbour. 

 As it is, the surf on the beach is nearly as bad as elsewhere 

 on the Liberian coast, and landing or embarking is always a 

 matter of uneasiness. On the south side of the bay is Lower 

 Buchanan, where most of the foreign factories are situated. 

 Close to Lower Buchanan is the little Bis5 (Bissaw) River, 



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and here or hereabouts is the legendary site of the old Norman 

 station of Petit Dieppe.^ To the east of Grand Basa Point 

 is the settlement of Tobakoni — a name which goes back some 

 two centuries — and beyond that is New Cess or Pua (Poor) 

 River, at the mouth of which, or at the adjoining village or 

 Young Sesters, was the slave depot of- Theodore Canot. 



' M. Maurice Delafosse thinks Petit Dieppe was situated at the mouth of the 

 River Cestos. 



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