Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t *>■ ] were called, by the Portuguefe, monies dares. •The river, /from Gambia, takes a northern -dire&ion; but it fends out a branch to the E. S. E. called Bunch River, in the mouth of .which Gambia I (land is iituated ; this branch, 'however, does not run any great diftance, '.before it divides, and is loft in fmall creeks. Gambia was formerly a Have factory occu¬ pied by the French, but now deferted ; it is an .ifland of confiderable extent, fituated about feven or eight miles above Free Town. The • land is pretty high, but the fhore is covered with mangroves and ooze; its fituation alfo in a kind of bay, half furrounded by very high hills, renders it extremely hot, and it has always proved very unhealthy, having on all ftdes of it woods and fwamps. From Gambia, northwards, the river Sierra Leona becomes interfered with a number of ifiands, moft of which are fmall, and many entirely overgrown with man. groves, and overflown by the tide ; fome, how'- ever, are of confiderable extent, as the iftand of Robanna, upon w hich there is a fmall tow n of the natives, beftdes a few7 draggling houfes, built to guard their rice grounds; the land islow,fwam- py, and very much inferred with mufquitoes. The ifiands ofTafloar)dMafabump,are the next](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30476732_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
