Of these, are emigrants, captured Africans, etc.,
about....................................... 5,000
"The slave trade is suppressed on 400 miles of coast, excepting at
one point.
"Shipping owned in the colony, 14 vessels, of from 20 to 80 tons.
"The exports annually, from the colony, are about $100,000.
"David Christy, "_Agent Am. Col. Society_"
--_The African Repository_, XXIV, 179-180.
OXFORD, O., April, 1848.