ILTON A. WOOD
BENJAMIN COOK J. W WILLIAMS
H. W. MOULTON WM. W. PEARCE
ANSBURN TUBMAN R. A. GRAY
JAMES M. MOULTON JAS. ADAMS
N. JACKSON, JUN. J. W. COOPER
JNO. E. MOULTON

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Mount Vaughan, near Harper, Cape Palmas
August 27th, 1859

Gentlemen--Your note of the 23rd inst., requesting me, should my
health permit, to appear before the citizens of your county, is
before me, and for the sentiments therein expressed I thank you
most kindly.

As I have reason to believe that I am now convalescent from my
second attack of native fever, should my health continue to improve
I shall start on an exploration for the head of Kavalla river on
Monday next ensuing, to return on Friday evening.

Should it be your pleasure, gentlemen, and my health will permit, I
will meet you on Monday, the 5th of September, the place and hour
to be hereafter named according to circumstances.

I assure you of the pleasure, Gentlemen, with which I have the
honor to be,

Your most obedient servant,
M. R. DELANY

Gen. Wood; Judge Drayton; Rev. Alex. Crummell; John
Marshall, Esq.; Hon. J. T. Gibson; C. H. Harmon,
Esq.; J. W. Cooper, Esq.; Dr. Fletcher; Giles Elem,
Esq.; Jas. M. Moulton, Esq.; Benjamin Cook, Esq.; S.
B. D'Lyon, M.D., and others, Committee, &c., &c.

Reception Meeting at Palmas

On the evening of the 14th this request was complied with in the
Methodist Church at Latrobe, an out-village of Harper, by addressing a
crowded assemblage of both sexes and all ages of the most respectable
people of the Cape, on the part of whom I was most cordially welcomed by
Rev. Alexander Crummell.

V

LIBERIA--CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, ETC.

Territory, Climate

Liberia extends from a point north of Grand Cape Mount, about 7 deg. 30
min. north lat., on sea shore, northeasterly to the western extremity of
the most southern range of the Kong Mountains, lat. 4 deg. 30 min. The
climate is generally salubrious, and quite moderate. But it is
frequently somewhat oppressive, though mild and genial, and the high
hills and mountain ranges sometimes enervating to strangers or
foreigners from temperate climates, in consequence of the "air being
freighted with _fragrance_" from the _flowers_ and _aroma_ of the
exube