This is the general character of this extensive plain; and from the small size of the trees, chiefly white gums, that are thinly scattered over it, we may infer that it is land of recent formation.

Two miles from the end of Long Reach, we passed a sandy head, where the tide rises from three to ten feet.
(*Footnote.

Figured by Mr.Gould, as Tadorna radjah.) The river now took a south by west direction, for nearly two miles, a little narrower, but three fathoms deep throughout.

Towards the latter part the banks were fringed with mangroves of a small and singularly even growth, resembling a clipped garden shrubbery.

Our course again changed to south-east, entering the low range of hills bounding the south-eastern side of Whirlwind Plains.