. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Chap. I. Oajis of South-Guinea. feri.. De Ruy ter hire. This river has feveral fmall idands and rocks at the entrance into the bay, which look like hay-reeks. The chief of them aic tlu" iflancis Cogti, Tajf.' and Bences ; on the lalt whereof the Englifii have ereded a lh»ali fort, whicli has nothing co

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. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Chap. I. Oajis of South-Guinea. feri.. De Ruy ter hire. This river has feveral fmall idands and rocks at the entrance into the bay, which look like hay-reeks. The chief of them aic tlu" iflancis Cogti, Tajf.' and Bences ; on the lalt whereof the Englifii have ereded a lh»ali fort, whicli has nothing confiderable but the advantage of the fituation, on a llecp rock, of ihfficult accel's, whicli is only up a fort of ftairs cut in the rock, and is a llore-iioufe for the royal /Ifrican company. Tlie fort is of lime and (lone, the walls low, has a round flanker with five guns, a curtin with embrazures for four large guns, and a platform juft before it with fix guns, all of them well mounted. But there arc no confiderable buildings in it, the flavc-booth being the bed. The garril'on generally confilts of twenty white men, antl thirty Grnmcltos, wiio are free Blacks, aivi have i finall vill.ige under the Iheker of the tor. The ifland is of little compals, and the foil barren. About tour leagues from the watering- place Hands the village Btigos, dole to a little wood -, and to the eallward of it is Totidy, where is a curious profpcft, and before it the/-'w^g/i/?) fhips uf'u.dly ride ; the illand Ttijfo appearing from thtnce at a great diftance, and looking like firm land. The Englijh African company had its fadlory .' Tmcrly on the ifland '/ii^ -, but the Dutch admiral cie RtnUr, at his return from the expedition tothegold-coaft, where he rcflor'd to the Diilcb IVejl-India com- pany moll of the frttlemcnts, the En^liJ/. under admiral Holmes, had taken trom them the year before, in the name of the duke of i'ork, and the royal African company of England, put into this river of Sierra

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