"day light found us very near the spot where i first landed on the island, we continued with the ebb along shore toward wood islands, under a high shore apparently much better land than we landed upon further west. ... the land is good above the bank – beech maple & birch with a few very spruce, as on the north on point prim – this high ridge seems to continue all the way from wood islands inland to belfast behind the low swampy ground which forms the coast towards flat river –"