Ultimately I was compelled to climb a tree, in order to obtain the necessary angles.
VIEW FROM TABLE HILL.
The view was very extensive, a wide inlet separating the range we stood on from other high land trending southward, with great irregularity, from the base of which stretched out a long plain, similar to that which lay at our feet.

The latter was intersected by creeks that could be traced by the mangrove fringe which marked their course.

Many parts of the low lands were covered with a salt incrustation, and here and there were scattered trees deposited by the overflows of the water, that still appeared to flow from the southward.

The sight of this driftwood and many minor appearances, was indeed most welcome, and added full confirmation to the opinion that we were now within the mouth of a large river.
To the South-West, and distant thirteen miles, were two large islands, which from the remarkable shape of two patches of trees on their northern ends, we named Quoin and Clump Islands.

A small patch of low land was discovered beyond them, between which and Quoin Island appeared the proper channel.