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LANGUAGE OF THE FANTIS. 
which does not now extend more than forty or fifty miles 
from the sea-coast. 
Although Accra is under the jurisdiction of Cape 
Coast, and is within the Fanti country, a large part of 
the population is from the adjacent tribes of Agoona 
and Inkran, as well as from others more in the interior. 
Before Ica’vdng this, it is, perhaps, better to say some- 
thing on the moral condition and physical characters of 
a people with whom in our possessions there, we have 
had much intercourse. 
The Fantis inhabit that part of the Gold Coast 
included between the River Sekoom, 0“ 2' west longitude, 
and Cape Three-points, 1® 58' west longitude. In this 
distance all are not pure Fantis, but such admixture has 
taken place, as obliges us thus to dispose of them. That 
aU the tribes included in this portion of the coast, and 
thence inland to Ashanti, have had one common origin, 
and arc probably included in one race — the Inta — appears 
in the numerous philological coincidences met with in 
examining the several dialects as far as they have yet 
been obtained. Even at Accra — which some suppose 
to have been peopled by a distinct race — perhaps the 
mountain negroes of Adampi — the language offers many 
similarities, as mentioned by Mr. De Graft. Whether 
this depends on the intercourse which has obtained of 
later years between that and other portions of the 
coast, remains to be proved. Mr. Bowdich states that the 
Ashantis have a popular belief that the As-hantis, Fantis, 
Was-sang, Akims, Assins, Aquambus, were included 
