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 A steamer penetrating from Monrovia through Stockton Creek northwards to the St. Paul River at Caldwell, keeps up the communications with all the sugar and other plantations lining the banks of this artery. Here all the groups of houses bear some American historic or geographic name, such as Virginia, Clay-Ashland,

''Kentucky, New York. Millsburg, the Mühlenburg'' of the German missionaries, has also some plantations and small factories on the rapids of the St. Paul. But the Mandingan traders, who avoid all contact with the despised “ Americans,” and prefer to deal directly with the natives, have chosen as their depôt the town of Vanswah, situated in the marshy district a few miles west of the river. Here they