^ Geography of Liberia 



the clouds. If all these estimates be correct, then Liberia, 

 within its limits or a few miles outside its borders, presents us 

 with the highest land in the whole of the western projection 

 of Africa. . In the Futa Jalon highlands and the hinterland 

 of Sierra Leone there is, so far as we know, no mountain 

 that reaches, to 6,000 feet in altitude, nor has anything as high 



196. KIKI RIVER, AN AFFLUENT OF THE LOWER CAVALLA 



as this bsen reported along the course of the Niger, The 

 nearest rival to these alleged high mountains of Liberia would 

 be the volcanic peak- of the Cameroons, a thousand miles to 

 the east. If the guess of Captain Woelffel as to the height 

 of Druple be at all correct, it should possess a remarkable 

 alpine flora, interesting alike from a negative and a positive 



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