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general of the coast and the stations in the in- 

 terior should be appointed ; and that he, accom- 

 panied by the judges, should visit the different 

 stations upon the coast every six months, and 

 the stations in the interior every twelve months. 

 This may be done with much more facility than 

 is generally supposed. The establishment re- 

 quired would be a steam-vessel of about eight 

 hundred tons for the coast service, and a river- 

 boat for the interior; and the method of pro- 

 ceeding, as follows : — 



Leaving Fernando Po on the 1st of January, 

 she would reach the south-east trade wind, a 

 distance of three hundred miles, in forty-eight 

 hours, and Ascension, under canvass, on the 10th. 

 Leaving Ascension for the Gambia on the 15th, 

 she would arrive (the distance being about thir- 

 teen hundred miles) on the 22nd ; leaving this 

 place for Sierra Leone on the 6th of February, 

 she would arrive there on the 9th ; she would 

 leave for Cape Coast on the 1st of March, where 

 she would arrive on the 8th, and at Fernando 

 Po on the 15th. The whole distance, which may 

 be called four thousand five hundred miles, would 

 thus be traversed in two months and a half, three- 

 fifths of it being with a fair wind. Thus justice 



