ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter written by the author from Portsmouth while sailing. The author expresses her views about the site scenes of the mountains of Sierra Leone. Those mountains appear to rise gradually from the sea to a stupendous height, richly wooded and beautifully ornamented by the hand of nature, with a variety of delightful prospects. She was vastly pleased while sailing up the river, for the rapidity of the ship through the water afforded a course of new scenery almost every moment. She and her friends went up the river, about twelve miles, to see a secret or reserved factory belonging to Bance Island at a place called Marre Bump, but their curiosity had nearly led us into a serious scrape. Returning down the river, they observed numbers of orange trees, a cluster of them, overloaded with fruit, invited us on shore, and after gathering what they chose, made the best of their way.
