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point of view, for what it possessed and for what it lacked. 

 These great mountains in addition would serve as important 

 sanatoria for the northern part of Liberia and the western basin 

 of the Niger, and might eventually be the objective of railways 

 from the Liberian coast-line and from the French Sudan. 



The southern range of mountains which confines the 

 Cavalla basin on the south and west (Satro-Nidi-Kelipo) 



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has as yet exhibited no heights that have been placed by 

 guesswork at more than 4,000 feet. High mountains are 

 reported north-east of the Cavalla, named Gamutro and Duna. 

 These may possibly, one or the other, be 5,000 feet in 

 height. The tops of these mountains are said to be bare 

 of forest, whereas the peaks of the southern Satro range seem 

 to be wooded to their summits. Between the Upper Cavalla 

 and the St. Paul's River is an almost unknown region, reported 



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