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entirely destitute of inhabitants. The two 

 streams which we first crossed might be about 

 eighty or one hundred yards in breadth ; they 

 are deep, but do not proceed far into the coun- 

 try. When the action of the tide ceases, all 

 these lesser streams become insignificant, and 

 most of them quite dry. The great river which 

 we were to have crossed is the Goiana; it 

 spreads very widely when the tide enters, but is 

 easily passed at the ebb, and the channel becomes 

 much contracted, and very shallow during the 

 spring-tides. It is judged to be about a league 

 in breadth, at its mouth, and is much deeper 

 immediately within the bar than upon it. 



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