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with lofty, airy rooms, surrounded by a wall and breast- 
work, white-washed, and conspicuous at a great distance. 
This is classic ground for a botanist ; for here Isert and 
Thonning formed the collections which have made the 
world acquainted with this Flora. The humane spirit 
of Isert, so zealously expressed in his writings on behalf 
of the negroes, rendered this place very interesting ; the 
more so, as we were engaged in an enterprise aiming at 
the same objects which he had endeavoured to attain 
during the last years of his life. No authentic informa- 
tion could be obtained of Isert’s establishments in the 
interior : after his decease they had gone to decay. Mr. 
De Kohns, who was reported to have assumed the 
management, and introduced the plough, and who was 
represented in various works to have done so much, 
never got here, as Mr. Richter and the Danish Governor 
positively declared. Since Isert’s time, indeed, no one has 
troubled himself about these plantations ; and about the 
year 1808 they were altogether given up. Everything 
is now a wilderness, and the place is not to be recog- 
nised. Flindt estabhshed about this time another plan- 
tation, on the River Volta, near the port, the main object 
being distillation ; but this was soon dropped. About 
ten years back, another plantation was made at the foot 
of the mountain in Aguapim, named ‘ Frederick’s gave ;’ 
and as they wished to visit it, Mr. Dali had the kindness 
to indulge them, though he said it was not important, 
and the superintendent being sick, that it would not be 
in a very satisfactory state. The distance is fourteen or 
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