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 L-OAT Oil' AUVRALIA.  twenty-two miles from the sea, and as there was every appearance of this proving a considerable 11--1. stream, it was honoured by the title of Prince Regent. While I was employed upon the island with the theodolite, Mr. Hunter, my companion, shot seven or eight br..e of birds; they were of two kinds; one a species of oyster-catcher, and the other a sandpipor. The island is of small extent, and is cormected to the land by a shoal communication; it is rocky and thickly wooded; the trees were chiefly acac/a,. The marks of oonsiderable floods were noticed upon its shores ;. and the wrecks of very large trees were thrown up ten or twalve feet' above the high-water mark. We re-embarked at a quartet to twelve o'clock, and pulled fourteen miles farther up the river, when a slight turn hid the island on which we had landed from our view; from the width of a mile and a half at the entrance, it had decreased to about two-thirds of a mile, and still continued gradually to get narrower: its banks throughout are bounded by steep rocky hills rising to the. height of two or three hundred feet, which, in some parts, were nearly overhanging the water; several mangrove-inlets communicated with the