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A LONG REACH. 
After passing two small islands and a narrow creek on 
the right bank, he came at the distance of five miles to a 
bifurcation; one branch trending north-east, the other 
north-west. Pursuing the latter, with a depth fi'om five to 
six fathoms, ten or eleven miles further, it became muddy 
and stagnant, and so narrow, that there was difficulty 
in turning the vessel, on account of overhanging 
branches of the trees, which they were obliged to 
cut away. They then returned to the main river, 
having proved, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that 
this cannot be a branch of the Niger, falling into 
the Bight of Benin, Much cultivation on the banks 
and highland was seen to the westward. 
We all anchored together in five fathoms, abreast of 
this little tributary, in the middle of the river, which 
is here about seven hundred yards wide. Some of the 
people from Uliam, a village on the left bank, oppo- 
site the Edoh, came on board, with a ‘‘dash’* of fruit 
and vegetables. They wore neatly made tobes. 
— 3 A.M. Th. 
77® Wet 
bulb 
Mason’s Hygr, 
74® 
9 A.M. „ 
00 
o 
75® 
3 P.M. „ 
76® 
5? 
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9 P.M. „ 
77® 
3) 
75® 
1 . — Weighed 
at 5.50. 
The 
river appeared 
an 
interminable reach, in a direction due north, with long 
islands succeeding one another in the middle ; the 
current two-and-a-half knots. We saw over the right 
bank a fine range of hills, the height of which appeared 
to be about five hundred feet. 
At noon, in latitude 6® 5 T 6" N., the breadth of the 
