It grows in large spreading tufts a considerable way up the hills.

The whole catalogue of plants does not exceed sixteen or eighteen, including several kinds of moss, and a beautiful species of lichen, which rises higher up from the rocks than the rest of the vegetable productions.

There is not the appearance of a shrub in the whole country.

Nature has been somewhat more bountiful in furnishing it with animals; though, strictly speaking, they are not inhabitants of the place, being all of the marine kind.

In general, the land is only used by them for breeding, and as a resting place.