THE WESTERN COAST. 
being opposed by the natives, through the ma- 
chinations of the white slave-traders, he fixed 
upon the mountains of Aquapim, sixty miles 
above Acra, at the same distance from the western 
bank of the Volta, which is navigable to the lati- 
tude of the colony, and about thirty miles from 
the river Pony, which is navigable for canoes. 
The situation is reckoned disadvantageous for 
commerce, but more salubrious than any other 
part of the coast. Dr Isert, in his letters to his 
father, published in I788, declares, that the na- 
tives of Aquapim live in a state of social harmo- 
ny, which inspired him with the idea of paradi- 
saical happiness and simplicity, and that the soil 
yielded the most luxuriant crops with very little 
labour. Guinea corn, millet, and cotton, have 
been cultivated by the colonists with great suc- 
cess, and the Danish government sent out a skil- 
ful farmer to introduce the plough. The exer- 
tions of Dr Isert having terminated in his death, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Roer, who, to great botanical 
knowledge, added much experience in West-In- 
dian cultivation, was apppointed to succeed him. 
Mr Flint, who superintended the infant colony 
till his arrival, founded another at the foot of the 
mountains, nearer Acra, where the soil was ex- 
tremely fertile, but where the wet and dry seasons 
were not so distinct as at Aquapim. The sister 
of this gentleman, with that humanity which dis-- 
