It runs in a deep glen, the sides of which are almost five hundred yards of slope, and rocky, the rocks being hardened calcareous tufa lying on clay shale and sandstone below, with a capping of ferruginous conglomerate.

The scenery would have been very pleasing, but fever took away much of the joy of life, and severe daily intermittents rendered me very weak and always glad to recline.
As we were now in the slave-market, it struck me that the sense of insecurity felt by the natives might account for the circumstance that those who have been sold as slaves and freed again, when questioned, profess to like the new state better than their primitive one.

They lived on rich, fertile plains, which seldom inspire that love of country which the mountains do.

If they had been mountaineers, they would have pined for home.

To one who has observed the hard toil of the poor in old civilized countries, the state in which the inhabitants here live is one of glorious ease.