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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