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Volta (River of west Africa)

a river of west Africa; which, rising in the Kong Mountains or highlands behind the Ashanti country, runs S. between Ashanti and Dahomey, and reaches the Bight of Benin through the E. part of the British Gold Coast.

To left and right of its mouth it forms great lagoons, and on the bar across the mouth a heavy surf runs.