Note 27 — Chapter III
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At Whydah the wells are about thirty feet deep, and the water is bad: they want a lining of lime and charcoal at the bottom. In the English fort, according to Mr. Duncan (vol. i. p. 120), after digging twenty feet deep, the soil was the same as at the top; at twelve feet they came upon a family sepulchre, decomposed human bones, and rusty anklets and armlets.