This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...God. Commerce shall lift her head, To auspicious gales shall spread Expanded wing j From India's spicy land, From Europe's rock-bound strand, From Peru's golden sand. Her tribute bring. O Lord! we look to Thee--To Thee for help we flee; Lord, hear our prayer: In righteousness arise, Scatter our enemies, Their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...God. Commerce shall lift her head, To auspicious gales shall spread Expanded wing j From India's spicy land, From Europe's rock-bound strand, From Peru's golden sand. Her tribute bring. O Lord! we look to Thee--To Thee for help we flee; Lord, hear our prayer: In righteousness arise, Scatter our enemies, Their hellish plots surprise, And drive them far. Oh happy people they, Who Israel's God obey, Whose Lord is God! They shall be blest indeed, From anxious cares be freed, And for them is decreed A large reward." Dr Skinner, whose indefatigable labours, both as a physician and an agent, had seriously undermined his health, was obliged to leave Africa and try the benefit of a sea-voyage. The agency fell into the hands of the vice agent, Mr. Anthony D. Williams, a coloured gentleman of great worth. Liberia met with some severe losses also at this time in the death of Mr. Searle, Dr. Webb, Rev. Mr. Laird and wife, and Mr. Cloud, missionaries of the Presbyterian church. On presenting his report before the Colonization Society, at his return to the United States, in 1837, Dr. Skinner, says: " Much can be done to render the settlements more healthy than they are at present, without incurring any great expense. Monrovia, for example, is capable of great improvement in this respect. The draining of two swamps, which might be done for two hundred dollars, would greatly improve the healthiness of the town." He thinks with proper exercise, diet, cleanliness and nursing, many of the emigrants might escape the sickness altogether, or have it in a light and greatly mitigated form. The mortality, however, has been less than it has been generally estimated, and greatly less than took place at the Colonization of this country. With one of the finest soils in the...
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