Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.

  • Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
Date:
1800
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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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    [ 59 ] • breadIh as at Free Town, for a tohfiderable * -diftance higher up, until about twenty miles aboVe tire fcttlement, beyond which itis'navi- gable only by velfels of a fmall draught of water, it divides into two large branches, called Porto Logo and Bokell rivers, and into a fmaller one, which from running into the Bullom country, is called the Bullom river.* The high land, from which the True Cape pro¬ jects, is continued in a chafh ofhills which runs to the S. as far as Cape Schelling, forming part of the entrance of the great river Sher- bro. From Cape Sierra Leone the hills, s which are a continuation of the chain running to the fouth, run nearly in a W. N. W. and E. S. E. direction, becoming gradually higher, to that part of them which bears about fouth ' from the Ifland of Gambia, from whence they feem gradually to decreafe in height. The echo which thefe hills return when a gun is fired, and the rumbling noife produced among them by thunder is very great, and has been noticed by all voyagers. From hence, they • * The tide of the river Sieya Leone rifes about twelve feet at fpring tides; during the rainy feafon it is very rapid, and flows about four or five miles an hour. It is fiigh water at eight o'clock at full and Change. were