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 of an imposing feudal castle, contains vast cisterns for the supply of the garrison and shipping. In the vicinity the Basle missionaries have founded a technical school, where are trained the best artisans on the whole seaboard between Sierra-Leone and the Gaboon.

Accra is the starting-point of several routes for the interior, and it is now

proposed to connect it by rail with Kpong, on the bend of the Volta, 50 miles distant. Some 24 miles to the north lies the little health-resort of Aburi (Abudé), founded by the Basle mission, amid a forest of fruit trees over 1,300 feet above sea-level. Akropong, former capital of the Akwapem state, serves also as a sanatorium for the whites and a centre of instruction for the natives.