34 VIEW FROM TABLE HILL. 



sloped down rapidly to the plain. We ascended by 

 a slight valley, communicating with a break in the 

 cliffs, but found on reaching the top that instead of 

 being on a level, we were standing amidst a series 

 of undulations or low hills, forming the crest of a 

 platform, but so blended together, and of so nearly 

 the same height as to appear in the distance one 

 continuous plain. It was, therefore, with some 

 difficulty that we could find the highest part, each, 

 until we reached it, appearing to be so. Ultimately 

 I was compelled to climb a tree, in order to obtain 

 the necessary angles. 



The view was very extensive, a wide inlet sepa- 

 ratino' the rano-e we stood on from other liiffh land 

 trending southward, with great irregularity, from the 

 base of which stretched out a long plain, similar to 

 that which lay at our feet. The latter was intersected 

 by creeks that could be traced by the mangrove 

 fringe which marked their course. Many parts of 

 the low lands were covered with a salt incrustation, 

 and here and there were scattered trees deposited 

 by the overflows of the water, that still appeared 

 to flow from the southward. The sight of this 

 drift wood and many minor appearances, was 

 indeed most welcome, and added full confirmation 

 to the opinion that we were now within the mouth 

 of a large river. 



To the S. W. and distant thirteen miles, were two 

 large islands, which from the remarkable shape of 

 two patches of trees on their northern ends, we named 



