bristles with capes and headlands. Of these promontories the largest is that specially known as Sierra-Leone, at the northern extremity of which stands the capital of the British possessions. During spring tide and heavy rains, this

Fig. 83. — Peninsula of Sierra-Leone.

peninsula is said to be completely surrounded by water, the two creeks partly Separating it from the mainland being then united in a single channel. Even during the dry season a portage of a few miles is the only obstacle to the complete