We soon discovered that it was nothing more than a shallow creek at low-water.

The tide here rising twenty feet, gave it the important appearance it had yesterday evening.

A tall clump of naked trees was conspicuous at the east entrance point, towering above the insipid mangrove shore.

We gave it the name of Hope Inlet, to commemorate the feelings it excited on its first discovery.

From the south point of Clarence Strait it is distant eleven miles, and the bay in which it lies, from the shallow-water at the head of it, was called Shoal Bay.
The boat being provisioned for four days, we pushed on to explore another opening above fifteen miles to the westward.