154 June 1854 Whampoa Reach June 13th 14ths & 15th During these three days we lay at our anchorage in Whampoa Reach. I made but one lost- optical excursion here, as I was allowed no boat from the ship (on account of the hot weath- ero) neither funds to engage the Chinese .... I examined the muddy banks of the paddy- fields which here compose the shores of the riv.- -er. These fields are of great extent, and are intersected by natural canals in all di- rections, so that it is difficult for a stran- ger to determine which is the main chan- el. Junks passing through the narrowest of these canals seem at a distance to be sailing on the land. The water here is fresh, and of a reddish or yellowish- -brown color from the contained sediment and other impurities. The tide rises and falls in a vertical space of about four feet. On the muddy shores I found Paludina, Cyrena Melanice, a Solecurtus (dead) a Thelpusa, a Sesarrea and two other Grapsid Crabs, a Hereis and a Memertes. The existence of the two worms here is probably to be explained by the proximity of trackless water, which is found not far down