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 quality than had been suspected, and the an. chorage was retained during our stay. Sep'- As the bottom of this port had a river.like pearance, Mr. Roe prepared to examine it, and set out at daylight, accompanied by Mr. Cun- ningham: they did not return until the following day. From his report it ppears, that the shores are overrun with mangroves, (rgop]w',) and that the whole of the back lands are inundated at high water, which accounts /'or the very strong tides we experienced. The bottom of the port, which at Mr. Roe's desire was named in compliment to Vice Admiral Sir Richard G. Keats, G. C.B., is divided into two salt water arms, extending to- wards the foot of a range of thick]y-wooded hills, which were seen from the anchorage, over the low mangrove shore, and which, fwm their .de-. scription, are probably connected with the Bar- theleroy Hills. Their summit was .named'Mount ' Goodwin. Our party put ashore at the only accessible landing place they found, and walked a inland. The country was extremely low and steril, and the soil composed of a tenacious clay, in which small iron-stone gravel is thickly mixed; it appeared to be of the same nature as the bot- ton on which we '.were anchored; and to have

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