Its shores were washed by an open sea.

My father determined to land and explore for a day.

This new land was destitute of timber, but we found a large accumulation of drift-wood on the northern shore.

Some of the trunks of the trees were forty feet long and two feet in diameter.( 7) (7 Greely tells us in vol.1, page 100, that: "Privates Connell and Frederick found a large coniferous tree on the beach, just above the extreme high-water mark.

It was nearly thirty inches in circumference, some thirty feet long, and had apparently been carried to that point by a current within a couple of years.