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vent by re-opening the old, and bursting through a new 

 channel, about one third of a mile south-west of the old 

 entrance, across the narrow spit of land which divides Reeves 

 River from the sea. The subsequent persistent floods have 

 kept both channels more or less open up to this time, but 

 indications have for some time back been presented of the 

 probable blocking up of the channel of the river connecting 

 the two entrances, and also of the old entrance channel. 



4. By reference to the accompanying plan, it will be seen 

 that the Reeves River is divided from the sea throughout 

 its length, by only a narrow strip of land, which, for a 

 distance of upwards of a mile south of the last formed 

 entrance, and rather more than two miles south-west of the 

 high land, running inland from the bluff, at the north-east 

 side of the entrance, consists of a low sand spit almost wholly 

 without vegetation, and nowhere exceeding 500 feet in 

 width, and rarely exceeding five feet in height above the 

 surface of the tide waters ; in most instances however it is 

 much narrower and lower. 



5. Further to the south-west the dividing land rises into 

 sand dunes, varying in height and width, and covered to a 

 greater or less extent with the vegetation common to the 

 coast. 



6. The lately formed entrance occupies nearly the same 

 position on the coast as the one in existence seven years 

 ago. During the above period the entrance gradually wore 

 its way in the direction of the high bluff lands to the north- 

 east, until it reached its present site, known as the old 

 entrance. 



7. The gradual shifting of the entrance, as above stated, 

 during the past seven years is, in my opinion, tolerably con- 

 clusive evidence of the existence of sand throughout the 

 whole area of the sand spit between the two entrances, to a 

 depth equal at least to that of the waters in the entrances, 

 and may, I think, be also acceptable as evidence of the 

 probable minimum depth of the sands forming the divide 

 between the lake and river waters and the sea. 



8. An attempt was made, during my last visit, to ascertain 

 the depth of the sands by boring within certain limits, but, 

 after reaching the level of the surrounding waters, the sand 

 became so quick that our imperfect apparatus was insufficient 

 to lift the materials, or deepen the bore hole 



9. Owing to the recent visit of the Geological Surveyor to 

 this locality, I will not do more than very briefly allude to 



