among the ocean of reeds which surrounded us, still running with the same rapidity as before.

There was no channel whatever among those reeds, and the depth varied from three to five feet.
This astonishing change (for I cannot call it a termination of the river) of course left me no alternative but to endeavour to return to some spot on which we could effect a landing before dark.

I estimated, that during the day, we had gone about twenty-four miles, on nearly the same point of bearing as yesterday.

To assert, positively, that we were on the margin of the lake, or sea, into which this great body of water is discharged, might reasonably be deemed a conclusion, which has nothing but conjecture for its basis.

But if an opinion may be permitted to be hazarded from actual appearances, mine is decidedly in favour of our being in the immediate vicinity of an inland sea, or lake, most probably a shoal one, and gradually filling up by numerous depositions from the high lands, left by the waters which flow into it.