THE WESTERN COAST. 
Philips,*, Atkins, t Bosman, t and Smith, § as 
pleasant, salubrious, and fertile. Cape Monte is 
represented as the paradise of Guinea, watered 
with rivulets and springs, spreading in vast mea- 
dows and plains, interrupted by groves perpetu- 
* The Journal of a Voyage along the coast of Guinea to 
Whidah, the island of St Thomas, and thence to Barbadoes, 
in 1693-4, by Captain Thomas Philips, contains many curi- 
ous observations on the country, the people, their manners, 
forts, trade, &c. but is exceedingly verbose, and crowded 
with minute nautical remarks on the winds, and the course 
of sailing. It is inserted in the 6th vol. of Churchill's Col- 
lection of Voyages. 
f Atkins' Voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West Indies^ 
in his Majesty's ship tlie Swallow, of which the author was 
surgeon, was published at London in 1737. He makes many 
curious remarks on the colour, manners, habits, language, 
customs, and religions of the negroes, and denies the exist- 
ence of cannibals among them. 
J Bosman was chief factor at the Dutch fort of St George 
D'Elmina, and composed, about the beginning of the present 
century, a Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into 
the Gold, Slave, and Ivory Coasts, in the Dutch language, 
which was soon translated into Enghsh. His observations 
are generally exact, though never profound, and he often af- 
fects ».kind of broad Dutch humour, which bears, however, 
little resemblance to genuine wit. 
§ Smith's Voyage to Guinea was printed at London in 
1745. It seems to have been compiled from some imperfect 
materials left by Mr Smith, wlio was surveyor to the Royal 
African Company^ and the accounts of other authors, par- 
ticularly Bosman, from wham the account of Benin is co- 
pied. 
