1833. MK. STOKES's PARTY. 315 



August,* Mr. Stokes and his party were most zealously occu- 

 pied between the Negro and Blanco Bay ; but time was too 

 fully occupied in the uninteresting, though useful works, of 

 sounding, measuring, observing, and chart-making, to admit 

 of many notices of the country being obtained in addition to 

 those already mentioned ; indeed the nature of the coast, almost 

 flat, uninhabited, without trees, and fronted by extensive sand- 

 banks, precluded the possibility of acquiring much information 

 not of a technical nature. 



* Already mentioned, p. 288. 



