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although curiously designed, presents quite an im- 

 posing appearance, having two stags with crowns 

 round their necks on the columns at the entrance. 

 It was built by Mr. Hutton, who, half a century 

 ago, made a large fortune on the Coast. On the 

 low hill behind the town are three detached 

 works, Fort Victoria, Fort Macarthy, and Fort 

 William, in which guns are mounted on plat- 

 forms, but they are badly situated for the defence 

 of the place; and the "One Tree Hill," where Com- 

 modore Wilmot afterwards threw up a work with 

 his sailors when the King of Ashantee threatened 

 to invade the Protectorate, is a far more eligible 

 position in a strategic point of view. In fact, if 

 it is intended that a garrison is still to be kept 

 up at Cape Coast Castle, the barracks and officer's 

 quarters ought to be constructed on this elevated 

 plateau, as the troops would be far more healthy 

 there than in the castle. 



The Fanti, Akim, and Denkira tribes, who hold 

 the country round Cape Coast Castle, are supposed 

 to be only under British protection^ although they 

 seem to be taxed and treated just the same as if 



