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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Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 57 1 by old geographers, the river Tagrin, or * Mitomba, about five miles from the mouth of the river. The land about the fettlement, when viewed from the fea, or from the oppo- fite fhore, called Bullom, appears like a num¬ ber of hills, heaped one upon another, in a very irregular manner. On a nearer ap¬ proach, theface of the country becomes more beautiful; the hills are covered to their very fummits w ith lofty trees; and the lower grounds, which are cultivated, preferve, by means of the heavy dews which fall, a lively verdure the whole year round, which forms a ftriking contraft with the darker hues of the more diftant hills. The entrance of the river is formed by two projecting points, one on the N. W. extremity of the Bullom fhore, impro¬ perly called Leopard s Bland, from its re- fembling an ifland when viewed at a diftance, though it is actually connected with the main '. * of doubt if a lion was ever feen there, as the natives have no knowledge of the animal. 1 am rather inclined to think it owes its name either to the difeoverer or to feme perfon who refided there, and that it was called Sierra de Leon, or Leon’s Mountain. This is rendered the more probable, as we find many parts of this coaft ffUj rcUiij the names of the fir it Portu^uefc difeoverers. land: