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twenty-two miles from the sea, and as there was 
every appearance of this proving a considerable 
stream, it was honoured by the title of Prince 
Regent. 
While I was employed upon the island with 
the theodolite, Mr. Hunter, my companion, shot 
seven or eight brace of birds: they were of two 
kinds ; one a species of oyster-catcher, and the 
other a sandpiper. 
The island is of small extent, and is connected 
to the land by a shoal communication; it is 
rocky and thickly wooded; the trees were chiefly 
acacias. The marks of considerable floods were 
noticed upon its shores ; and the wrecks of very 
large trees were thrown up ten or twelve feet 
above the high-water mark. 
We re-embarked at a quarter to twelve o’clock, 
and pulled fourteen miles farther up the river, 
when a slight turn hid the island on which we 
had landed from our view ; from the width of a 
mile and a half at the entrance, it had decreased 
to about two-thirds of a mile, and still continued 
gradually to get narrower: its banks throughout 
are bounded by steep rocky hills rising to the 
height of two or three hundred feet, which, in 
some parts, were nearly overhanging the water ; 
several mangrove-inlets communicated with the 
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1820 . 
Oct. 
1 . 1 — 12 , 
