THE WESTERN COAST, 
by Demanet, and in I787 by Barber, an English- 
man residing at Havre de Grace. The fertiUty 
of the soil, its central situation for the coasting 
trade of Africa, its proximity to the Gambia, 
Grande, and Nunez rivers, recommended it to 
the Managers of the Bulama Association as an 
eligible situation for establishing a colony. As 
soon as a subscription sufficient to defray the ex- 
penses of the voyage, and to provide necessaries 
for the colonists, was raised by the Association, 
three vessels sailed from Spithead on the 11th of 
April with ^75 persons, conducted by Mr Dalrym- 
ple. As the subscription had not only been filled 
with extreme precipitancy, but the colonists had 
been engaged as they presented themselves, with- 
out discrimination, the greater number of these 
persons were unprincipled men, of ruined fortunes 
and characters, or, as they are described by Mr 
Beaver, drunken, lazy, dishonest, impatient, 
" cowards." They had embarked in this expedi- 
tion, without having considered either the diffi- 
culties or the dangers which they had to encoun- 
ter ; without having reflected upon the difference 
of the situation in which they were to be placed, 
from that to which they had been accustomed- 
The views of the subscribers were partly agricul- 
tural, and partly commercial. The majority pro- 
posed to cultivate cotton, sugar, coffee, tobacco, 
iuid indigo, while others expected to establish a 
