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 cors o Attmt.L. as soon as the casks were tilled, we set off tssi. on our return, but did not reach the brig until J- eight o'clock in the morning. The fatigue and exposure which attended our watering at this place were so great, that I was ,bliged to give up the idea of completing it now. We had obtained, by the two trips, enough to chanoe of finding more upon other parts of tim ast, was mdrent for our intended rood, of proceeding. The boats were therefore hoisted in, and preparations made to leave the an- rage. The river appears to abound with 6,h, partim. lady with mullet; and porpoises were observed as high as the fut falls, a distance of fusty from the sea..tl. curious species of mud-fmh ( rocteo sp. Cuvier) was notioed, of amphibiotm ilartire, alld 8onethin imilr to what we have fre- quently before seen; these were, however, much larger, being about nioe inche long. At low water, the mud-banks near the cascade, that were expozod by the falling tide, were covered with these fmh, sporting about, and running at each other with open mouths; but as we approached, hey so instantaneously buried themselves in the soft mud, that their disappearance seemed the

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