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MUNGO PARK'S 
day under a large tree called Teelee Corra, the same under 
which I formerly stopped in my return from the interior.* 
The Gambia here is about 100 yards across, and, contrary 
to what I expected, has a regular tide, rising four inches by 
the shore. It was low water this day at one o'clock. The 
river swarms with crocodiles. I counted at one time thir- 
teen of them ranged along shore, and three hippopotami. 
The latter feed only during the night, and seldom leave 
the water during the day ; they walk on the bottom of 
the river, and seldom shew more of themselves above water 
than their heads. 
At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, we again set 
forward, and about a mile to the eastward ascended a hill, 
where we had a most enchanting prospect of the country to 
the westward ; in point of distance it is the richest I ever 
saw. The course of the Gambia was easily distinguished 
by a range of dark green trees, which grew on its banks. 
The course from Teelee Corra is represented in the fol- 
lowing sketch. 
* Probably the tree mentioned in Park's Travels, p. 354. 
