Map of Liberia, 1858
Map of Liberia. The Republic of Liberia extends along the west coast of Africa from the Gallinas river, 420 miles S.E. to the San Pedro, with an average breadth inland of 40 miles, comprising an area of 16,800 square miles. It includes Liberia Proper; and Maryland, and Ohio, in Liberia. The immigrant population is bout 6000 and the native 140,000, the latter consists of various tribes of which the Veys or Feys, Deys, Bassas, Fishmen, and Kroomen, are the chief.—Mitchell's School Atlas, 1863