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 �' 410 survey o1 THE INTERTROPICAL mO. at other seasons, the frequency of strong freshes 'Jf. or floods. (he of the lieoes of drift ,wood had been cut by a sharp instrument, Mr. Roe further says, "From the ap of the country and the teep hills, generally about three hundred feet high, among which this. river winds, there can be little doubt of its ,being, during the rainy season, a considerable fresh,water stream; and as I consider the length of its various windings to be twenty-six or twenty, seven miles, there is every prospect of its be/gig navigaMe for our boat for at least  that distance farther, Fish were plentifhl, but prino tipally of that sort which the sailors call �cat tish ;' of these several were caught. Small birds were numerous, together with white cockatoos, cuckoos, some birds. with very hoarse discordant notes, and one whose note,resembled the beat- ing of a blacksmith's b,mmer upon an anvil. At daybreak they all exerted themselves itl full chorus,' and I should then have prOCeeded farther, but the tide. was half out, and a soft mud-bank forty feet broad fronting the shore, cut off. our commun/cation with the boat." As soon as the ebb-tide began to make, ]?we embarked on his return; and during passage down saw as many as twelve.all/gators. Two were ired at, but the balls glane off thei Disitid by Goog[c

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