■^ Geography of Liberia 



River is met with, at once the boundary and the most southern 

 limit of the Republic of Liberia. There is, however, on the 

 coast of Maryland that rare feature in Liberian geography, 

 an island, something more than a mere rocky islet, called Old 

 Garawe, which lies off the mouth of the small Garawe River, 

 and is about three miles long, being separated from the main- 

 land by a broad creek. The western approach to the River 

 Try or Garawe is beset with rocks ; but the eastern end of 



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this Garawe Island might be inspected with a view to the creek 

 behind it forming a harbour. There is said to have been an 

 old French settlement at Garawe, as there was also at Grand 

 Sesters. 



A remarkable reef of rock stretches out into the sea near 

 the mouth of the River Dia and to some extent prevents the 

 approach to Fish Town, a Liberian settlement on a promontory 

 which was called Cape Sao Qemente by the Portuguese. 



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