?4 8;?RV?Y OF THE INTgRTROPIC? �e two bays opposite to Gap Island, but/mind them ?o shoal and overrun with mangroves, that no landing could be effected in any part. In both bays there is anchora? between the heads; but all the inner part is very shoal, and perhaps, ? low water, there is not more than nine feet water within the heads. In the mid. stream of the river the bottom is deep, and is formed entirely of abeIls, over which, on account of its being very narrow, the tide rims with great stren/?h; and from the i?ty of the bottom forms ntl- merou? eddies and whirll?x?, in which a bo? i? quite unman?eable. Durin? our absence, Mr. Bedwell examined our former wmr/n?.l?lace, at the back of St. An- drew's Island, and on his return landed upon the sandy beach.of a bay on the south.west side of the basin, but was ?lnsuceesafitl in his liearch for water at both places. The sea breeze fre?hened towards sunset, and fanned up the fires that had been burning for the last three days in several places upon the low land, and on the sides or,he hills to the westward of Mount Trafalgar; before .night they had all joined, and, spreadi? over the tops of the hills for a space of three miles, produced a sin- ?darly ? ?t m?c?nt e?'e? At 1? .p? five o'clock .?.e next ..m?n?, we were
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