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contains no less than seven feet water in the 
shallowest place, many places having twelve and 
upwards, with a bottom of hard sand and clay. 
Crooked Creek, which is about the same 
breadth, has only two feet water at its mouth 
during the ebb, but its general depth in other 
places is from three to six feet. 
Turnbull Creek is likewise very shallow, hav- 
ing in no place more than five feet water. It is 
possible that much benefit might result from so 
shutting up the mouths of Newt and Crooked 
Creeks, and the one adjoining the latter, as to 
prevent the high flood-tides in the rainy season 
from entering them, as it would, if effectually 
done, reclaim from inundation and its conse- 
quent bad effects, a large space in the almost 
immediate vicinity of the town. But it remains 
to decide whether the ground about them is 
lower than high-water mark, in which case it 
would be impossible to remedy the present evil 
in any other way than raising the level of the 
surface, a work that would be attended with con- 
siderable expense and difficulty. 
That this infant colony has answered, nay, ex- 
ceeded the most sanguine expectations of all con- 
cerned, is strongly proved by the very great and 
rapid increase of its population, not only by the 
considerable augmentation of the number of Bri- 
tish merchants, but by an immense influx of the 
