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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