ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter written by the author about narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone. The author have been to the French Factory, visited several neighbouring towns, and made himself a little intimate with the history, manners, customs, &c. The tract of country now called Sierra Leone, is a Peninsula one half the year, and an island the other that is, during the rains the Isthmus is overflowed. The river, which was formerly called Tagrin, now takes its name from the country; at its entrance it is about ten miles from one Promontory to the other, but here, it is scarcely half that distance across, and a few miles higher up it becomes very narrow indeed. Besides the Islands he have mentioned, there are several others, uninhabited, between this and Bance Island. Hence the author finds a great similitude in the appearance of the people, their behaviour, and mode of living, building, amusements, &c.
