The creek runs for about twenty miles inland, with an irregular width.

The "Beagle" anchored a few miles within the entrance, in front of the ruins of an old Spanish settlement.
The same evening I went on shore.

The first landing in any new country is very interesting, and especially when, as in this case, the whole aspect bears the stamp of a marked and individual character.

At the height of between two and three hundred feet above some masses of porphyry a wide plain extends, which is truly characteristic of Patagonia.

The surface is quite level, and is composed of well-rounded shingle mixed with a whitish earth.