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A FINE VIEW. 
rising abruptly from the margin of the river to a height 
of 185 feet, its summit dotted with conical huts, while 
numerous Convolvuli and other trailing plants hung in 
long festoons over the precipitous edge. 
The landing-place is near the village of Abokko, 
the former chief of Adda-mugu, and brother of the 
late King; from whence a narrow winding path leads 
up the acclivity to the town of Iddah. 
On reaching the summit, a splendid panoramic view 
was obtained ; on the right, were the irregularly 
scattered houses of the town ; to the left, the smooth 
bright suiface of the river extending upwards and 
downwards in its magnificent breadth, while on the 
opposite shore, a diversified and hilly country, clothed 
in richest verdure, was gradually lost in the outline of 
several distant mountain ranges. 
As we had already consumed a large portion of our 
country, and which, with a small angle of inclination, may be carried 
from the Kong mountains, at the confluence, to the hills of Iddah. 
The iron sandstone consists of quartz, with quartzose clay, combined 
with a solution of iron. The latter was sometimes found in fragments. 
On the southern slope of the hills, the ferruginous sandstone alters 
into iron-wacke, the porous red-coloured clay hanging between the 
fragments. There is also a similar description of iron-wacke found 
on the surface at Sierra Leone. The sandstone has been undermined 
and washed away ; the more compact iron sandstone had broken 
down from its own weight ; and so the valleys around Iddah have 
been covered with alluvial matter, consisting of clay and sand loosely 
bound together. — Roscher’s MSS, 
The soil on the hill is inferior to the flat and overilowed banks, 
but still capable of producing a good harvest. — Roscher's MSS. 
