In the time of the dry feafon, only. A few off 

 the government negroes, who are employed at 

 the fort, have conttruded fraall huts at the 

 back of the hofpital, which call to my remem- 

 brance the cottagers' cabins I have feen in the 

 Highlands of Scotland. At thefe habitations, 

 we fometimes witnefs the joyous dance — * 

 and have our ears regaled with the found of 

 the rude African drum, the rattle, and the 

 banjar. 



Beyond the immediate precincts of the fort 

 we do not find any human abode, without 

 making a journey of, at leaft, a mile and half 

 by water. At that diftance is now forming the 

 town of Amfterdam, the new capital of the 

 colony. Between the fort and the town the 

 river Kannye opens into the great Berbifchc 

 river ; and between the Kannye and the fort, 

 the border of the parent river is ftill covered 

 with the wild woods : but thefe are now 

 doomed to the axe, and foon a road will be 

 opened upon the bank of the river Berbifche 

 to the river Kannye, and from the oppofite 

 fhore of that river to the town. This will be 

 a great, and defirable improvement. It will 

 at once relieve the wildnefs of the fituation, and 



