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marked that it had been cultivated; and there can be no 

 doubt but it would be capable of producing the finest wheat. 

 The plain, wiiich we passed over to reach the foot of the hills 

 in going to the banza, is equally proper for the production of 

 rice, and would probably afford two crops a year; one bv 

 tlie natural watering in the rainy season, and the other by a 

 very small degeee of labour, in introducing the river water 

 upon it in the dry season. 



The Booka Embomma, which is separated from the main 

 land by the creek named Logan by Maxwell, is entirely of 

 schistus, except an exuberantly fertile lev^el that borders the 

 creek ; this latter is about 5 yards broad, and has 3 and 4 

 fathoms depth up to a ledge of rocks, which crosses it near 

 its south entrance, and through which there is an (opening 

 barely capable of admitting a canoe. The only part of 

 this reach, in which the current has any considerable force, 

 is at the east side of Zoonga Booka, where it runs in little 

 whirlpools over the rocky bottom about 3 miles an hour; 

 the stream in the mid-channel (where the depth is 15 

 fathoms) is from 1^ to 2 miles an hour, and in shore on 

 both sides it is often stagnant ; and sometimes a small coun- 

 ter current is experienced. The island Booka Embomma 

 would be the most eligible place thus far for a settlement. 

 The trees we had occasion to observe here are generally 



