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Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
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From the N. Y. Daily Advertiser FROM AFRICA. By the arrival of the Schooner Randolph, we have seen letters from Liberia, from which we make the following extracts. The Rev. Geo. R. McGill writes— "The settlement appears to be in a flourishing state, and there is nothing to prevent our becoming a great people, if proper care is taken in the outset. There is a great deal of trade carried on here with foreigners, and also with the natives. There are two or three arrivals almost every week with supplies of nearly all kinds. The pupils under my charge seem to be in a very prosperous way—but scholars, who can write, are so much wanted (by our merchants and others) that they rob my school as soon as they get a boy sufficiently advanced to make an entry of any thing on paper,—so that I have not had a chance of advancing any very far, as yet. I have got my own house nearly ready to live in. Its size is thirty by sixteen feet. The first story is of stone and the other frame. It will be, when finished, as nice a house as there is in the settlement. When it is finished, I wish to return home for my family." Mr. McGill gives it as his opinion that the dry season is not the best time for emigrants from the North to arrive in Africa as they must leave of the America climate in is the more winter severely when felt the plifed. The truth by the of comparative Mr McGill s remarks is exem- t of emigrants in the two voyages of the Do- his Those who left this city in February 87 reached Africa in the beginning of the rains of their but number enjoyed by very death-v good health ile losing those none who the ki dry here seasoo in November have sufered and reached very severely Africa in the change of clima e in is the more winter severely when felt the plifed. The truth by the of comparative Mr McGill s remarks is exem- t of emigrants in the two voyages of the Do- his
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FROM AFRICA.
By the arrival of the Schooner Randolph, we have seen letters from Liberia, from which we make the following extracts. The Rev. Geo. R. McGill writes—
"The settlement appears to be in a flourishing state, and there is nothing to prevent our becoming a great people, if proper care is taken in the outset. There is a great deal of trade carried on here with foreigners, and also with the natives. There are two or three arrivals almost every week with supplies of nearly all kinds. The pupils under my charge seem to be in a very prosperous way—but scholars, who can write, are so much wanted (by our merchants and others) that they rob my school as soon as they get a boy sufficiently advanced to make an entry of any thing on paper,—so that I have not had a chance of advancing any very far, as yet. I have got my own house nearly ready to live in. Its size is thirty by sixteen feet. The first story is of stone and the other frame. It will be, when finished, as nice a house as there is in the settlement. When it is finished, I wish to return home for my family."
Mr. McGill gives it as his opinion that the dry season is not the best time for emigrants from the North to arrive in Africa as they must leave of the America climate in is the more winter severely when felt the plifed. The truth by the of comparative Mr McGill s remarks is exem- t of emigrants in the two voyages of the Do- his Those who left this city in February 87 reached Africa in the beginning of the rains of their but number enjoyed by very death-v good health ile losing those none who the ki dry here seasoo in November have sufered and reached very severely Africa in the change of clima e in is the more winter severely when felt the plifed. The truth by the of comparative Mr McGill s remarks is exem- t of emigrants in the two voyages of the Do- his
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Liberia
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emigrants arriving in dry season suffer severely from climate change; those arriving in rainy season enjoy good health with no deaths.
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The settlement in Liberia is flourishing with active trade with foreigners and natives, and frequent arrivals of supplies. Pupils under Rev. Geo. R. McGill's charge are progressing, but scholars are quickly taken by merchants. McGill is building a stone and frame house, 30 by 16 feet, and plans to return home for his family once finished. He opines that dry season is not best for northern emigrants due to severe winter climate transition, exemplified by February 87 voyage arriving in rains with good health, versus November dry season arrival with suffering.