ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter written by the author about River Sierra Leone. Mr. Clarkson departure operated more powerfully and generally upon people's feelings, than all the deaths the author had in the colony. Several gentlemen accompanied him two or three leagues to sea, and returned the same night. The surveyor has stopped surveying the lots of land for the Settlers, although he assured Mr. Clarkson, they should have them in a fortnight. His attention is now taken up with fortification, which seems to be the hobby-horse of Mr. Dawes, and a large Fort is plane out upon a hill, about half a mile from the water side. King Jemmy came to see the author to ask what was the reason Mr. Clarkson did not call upon him before he sailed, and said he did not suppose Mr. Clarkson would have left the country without coming to see him; his cheek was furrowed with tears as he spoke.
