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 establishment, and is flourishing. It has three churches, three day-schools, and three Sunday-schools. It is an interesting fact, that one of the native kings recently applied at one of these day-schools for the admission of twelve children; which request, however, could not be granted, as the school was already full

"Between Caldwell and Monrovia, on Stockton Creek, is a settlement of recaptured Africans, called . It was planted in part by the aid of the United States Government. It contains five hundred inhabitants, who, though they were once the miserable tenants, in chains, of the loathsome slaveship, are now living in the enjoyment of the blessings of civilized and Christian life. This place has a church and near two hundred houses. Mr. Buchanan, agent of the 'Young Men's Society of Pennsylvania,' who visited this place, says respecting this settlement, 'The air of perfect neatness, thrift, and comfort, which everywhere prevails, affords a lovely commentary on the advancement which these interesting people have made in civilization and Christian order, under the patronage of the Colonization Society. Imagine to yourself some two or three hundred houses, with streets intersecting each other at regular distances, preserved clean as the best side-walk in Philadelphia, and lined with well planted hedges of cassava and plum; a school-house full of orderly children, neatly dressed and studiously engaged; — and then say whether I was guilty of extravagance in exclaiming as I did, after surveying this charming scene, that had the Colonization Society accomplished no more than has been done in the rescue from slavery and savage