Mféfribh: this courte'was three miles/ We ithem proceeded Wd^Soath*-
.Weft twô-writes, andfounded in twenty-fourteet water. Here the rmer nan-
rowed and the current focreafed. We then-continued our courte North*
North-Weft three quarters of a mile, a fmall river falling in from the
Norifr-Baft. It H&W vfeered’to South fey Weft one mile and a quarter,
WbfoSfeudr-Weft four mites and an half, Weft fey'North one mile and a
^quarter, -North-Wfeft by Weft One 'mile, Weft a 'mite and a quartern
thé land was high On both fides, and the river narrowed to: an hundred
and fifty, Or two hundred yards ; North-Weft; three quarters of a mite,
d§otôh-Wé& fe ÿ -South two miles and uufihalf:: here -its breadth again
-Itteteafcd ; South fey Weftone mile, Weft-South-Weft half a mile, South-
Weft fey South throe mites, South-South-Eaft one mile, with a fmall
hivèrfürming in from the left, South with a fteqng current one mitertfeep.,
Eaft three quarters of-a mite,;South-Weft one mile, ScmtfoSoatM£gft
a mile and an half ; -the- four laftdiftances being a continual rapid. ; Sou th-
Weft by Weft one;mile, Eaft-North-Eaft a mile vand* an half, Eaft-South-
Taft one mile,-where-a fmall -fiver flowed in onithe right ; South-Weft
'fey South two mites and an half/when another fmall river appearedfrom
the fame quarter ; South by Eaft half a mile, and South-Weft by Weft
JOtte mile and‘a quarter: 'here-we landed for the night. When.y?efe$d
paffed the laft river we obferved ftnoke rifingfrom it, as i f produced by
fires that had been fretfh lighted ; 1 -therefore- concluded that there we$e
ilativês On its banks ; ifeut T was-unwilling to ; fatigue my people, »fey
'pulling back «gainft the -eurrentin order to go -in fearchof them.
Thisriver^appeared, from fes' high water-mark, to have fallen-no more
than one:foot/While the frnâiter branch,-from a fimilar measurement, had
funk
fuhk'tWo feet and an half: On our entering it, we few i. flock of ducks *75»-
which- were entirely Awffith, excepi the. bill and part afthh wings. The 1 V 1
•feeaiher waacold and raw tferaughout the day, and the wind South-Weft/
We few fmoke rifilng in eoJumns>#om many^partsi of the woods, and I
fhould havebeen more anxious to fee; the natives, i f there had been any
perfoa with , me whacould'have iaatrodueed me .to them; 1 but as that
<dge& could hot lfe^fi.«ttaliied''Tdtfiofefe cbnfixterdbteiiofe'bfjtime, I d©-;
temined> td piuftU tfe^ navigario» whilete eontrriuedi tu be fb favourable,
andtxv wait till my1 return, if ho: very convenient opportunity offered in
the mean time; to engage in. am intercourfe with them. rsj.
The morning was; foggy, and at three we were ©n the water. A t half Wadnet 19.
paft that hour; our Comte wksEaft fey South three quitters o f a mite/a
fmall river flowing in from the: right. We then proceeded. South by Eaft
half a mite, and! South-South-Weft a mile and an half. During the laft
diftance, cfoudssof thick fmoke nafe from the woods, that darkened the at-
mofphere, accompanied with a ftrong odourof the.gum of vyprefs;and the
Ipruce-fir. Our courfes continued! t© be South-Weft aj mile and a quarter,
North-Weft; by-Weft three quarters @f a mitey South-SoettkEaft amife
and a quarter, Eaft three quartets of a mite,. South-Weft one mile/ Weft
byfSbhtft three quartete of a mite, South-EaftbySeuthi three quarters of
amiifkz Soiih by Weftfea!#a,mite, Weft fey?S@urfe threes^iarters qf^stmile,
S@utfer ?by Weft, two nrifes and an fe^f. the laft courfe there was an
ifland, arid it appeared to mg; that the main! channel of theriver haddbr-
merly beer*.on the other fide of k. The banks wete her©'competed of
high white clife; crowned- wtetepitmaetes ini very grbteftiue (hopes. * We
continued to (beer Soufch-Eaft.by-South a mile and an h&lf, South by Eaft
H h half