"At one place, I went a little into the wood, & saw large stumps - I learnt on arriving at Charlotte Town, that all this coast had been laid waste by a great fire 30 or 40 years ago: - The soil however appears very poor sand.
"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...