With a strong flood-tide and a fine day we made a good run, soon drank some of the fresh water, and were at night nearly above the tidal influence.
The river here assumed a size and appearance which, even at the highest point we ultimately reached, was scarcely diminished.

It was generally from three to four hundred yards broad, and in the middle about seventeen feet deep.

The rapidity of the current, which in its whole course runs at the rate of from four to six knots an hour, is perhaps its most remarkable feature.

The water is of a fine blue colour, but with a slight milky tinge, and not so transparent as at first sight would have been expected.

It flows over a bed of pebbles, like those which compose the beach and the surrounding plains.