The hinterland of Liberia has been but slightly explored for mineral wealth.
One noteworthy feature in Liberia, however, is the relative absence of mosquitoes, and the white ants and some other insect pests are not so troublesome here as in other parts of West Africa.
Nowhere, perhaps, does the flora of West Africa attain a more wonderful development than in the republic of Liberia and in the adjoining regions of Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.
Corundum indeed is abundantly met with in the eastern half of Liberia.
Gold is present in some abundance in the river sand of central Liberia, and native reports speak of the far interior as being rich in gold.
