F. Cardew, Railway Schemes for the Colony of Sierra Leone. An Address before the African Trade Section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 2 August 1895 (Liverpool: Chamber of Commerce, 1895).

This chapter contains a report on Railway Schemes for the Colony of Sierra Leone given by his Excellency Col. F. Cardew, C.M.G., Governor of Sierra Leone, before the members of the African section of that chamber, and others. The hilly country is so broken up and rugged that it does not need an expert to show that unless some river valleys offering easy gradients exist, along which a railway line could thread its way, the cost of overcoming the engineering difficulties entailed by penetrating such a country would be quite prohibitive of the scheme. Col. F. Cardew proposes to refer to seriatim: characteristics of the natives and density of population; nature and fertility of the country and existing products and trade routes; capability of country for development; prospects of trade from countries outside the protectorate.