Mr.Oxley thus expresses himself on the subject:-- "July 3rd.

Towards morning the storm abated, and at day-light, we proceeded on our voyage.

The main bed of the river was much contracted, but very deep; the waters spreading to the depth of a foot or eighteen inches over the banks, but all running on the same point of bearing.

We met with considerable interruptions from fallen timber, which in places nearly choked up the channel.

After going about twenty miles, we lost the land and trees; the channel of the river, which lay through reeds, and was from one to three feet deep, ran northerly .-- This continued for three or four miles farther, when, although there had been no previous change in the breadth, depth, or rapidity of the stream for several miles, and I was sanguine in my expectations of soon entering the long-sought-for Australian sea, it all at once eluded our farther pursuit, by spreading on every point from N.W.to N.E.