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 bristles with capes and headlands. Of these promontories the largest is that specially known as Sierra-Leone, at the northern extremity of which stands the capital of the British possessions. During spring tide and heavy rains, this

peninsula is said to be completely surrounded by water, the two creeks partly Separating it from the mainland being then united in a single channel. Even during the dry season a portage of a few miles is the only obstacle to the complete