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89: 25: 84:, nor is the Landing-Place any better. The Fort stands on a rising Ground about Fourteen Yards from the Seaside, having a handsome Avenue of Trees up to the Outer Gate. Here is also a large Spurr, which contributes very much to the Strength and Usefulness of the Fort, being a safe Place to secure their Cattle at Night from the Wild Beasts. Here also are very good Gardens; all which together render the Place pleasant and Comfortable enough" 17: 73:
in Five Fathom Water. Here we were supplied with pure fresh Water from out of their Tank, and tho' we had drawn several Tons of it, I could not perceive we had lowerd it Six Inches, from whence I concluded the Tank at
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has a Spring in it, the bottom being all a Rock . This Fort is exactly the same Plan and Dimensions as
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of view from the South West, 1727, from sketch by William Smith
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Forts of the former European colonial powers on the
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Jacobus van der Schley
slave fort
trade in enslaved people
Royal African Company
Gold Coast
Ghana
William Smith
Tantumquery

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978-0-8108-7242-4
A new voyage to Guinea
John Nourse
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Gold Coast
Brandenburg-Prussian forts
Groß Friedrichsburg
Dorothea
British forts
Apollonia
Metal Cross
Sekondi
Komenda
Cape Coast
Victoria
Royal

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