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Mr. Brown, “Ingliana.” Near it I noticed an extensive plan- | 
tation of Bananas ; and soon after this, we cast anchor. The 
borders of the rivers were every where covered with forests, 
reaching to the water’s edge, or with intervening high grass, 
(Sorghum saccharinum ?) Amongst these. there were frequently — 
places cleared for plantations, or they might be natural 
open spots in the forests, where high trees would stand 
singly. A great inconvenience and misfortune it is that 
we are obliged to drink such bad water: it has not only 
a dirty colour, but owing to its being saturated with decom- 
posed vegetable and animal matter, a sickening taste, which, - 
though somewhat lessened, is not removed by filtration. 
Tuesday, August 24,—At eight o'clock we passed so neat | 
the shore, that I could botanize; and I observed the blos- 
soms of a high tree (Mimosa) and of a climber, a Tetracera, 
perhaps not different from T. Senegalensis (obovata ?) Towards — 
ten o'clock we came to the Benin (Warree) branch. On the 
point of land, between the two arms of the river, a signal-post 
was erected, and this gave me the opportunity of visiting 
the shore for a few minutes, and I found it covered with the 
Sorghum, previously noticed. An Æschynomene, Cassia 
mimosoides and a Malvacea, were all I could pick up in the. 
hurry. "Though, from on board ship, the shore had appeared 
swampy, it proved firm to the water's edge; and I am 
inclined to believe that spots, looking marshy at a distance, 
are not really so. Perhaps some swamps may be formed 
in dry weather by the receding of the waters; but since — 
our quitting the Mangrove country, I have not observed 
any absolute morasses: on the contrary, the land appears 
every where to rise 2 or 3 feet above the water, though — 
what are now creeks may become swamps in the dry - 
season. We descended the Benin (Warree)* branch for a few — 
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* The branch is erroneously called the Benin branch in Allen's Chart- 
It leads to Warree or Warri, and ought therefore to be called the — 
Warree branch,—(H, D. Trotter), * I 
