JOWHERE in the world can be found a more admirable site for
a city, in all the particulars of a magnificent and picturesque
scenery, than on the broad estuary of Sierra Leone. Twenty
miles in length, and varying in breadth from ten miles at its
entrance, between Leopard's Island, on the north, and Cape Sierra
Leone, on the south, to four miles at the Island of Tombo, where it
terminates, it presents, on either shore, a variety of natural features, which
at once rivets attention and excites a mixed and highly pleasing emotion
of the beautiful and the sublime.
