The sea was as tranquil and blue as that of a Mediterranean gulf, when the sky is clear.

Claw Cape, bent in the form of a yataghan, tapered away nearly four miles to the southeast.

To the left the edge of the marsh was abruptly ended by a little point.
Certainly, in this part of Union Bay, which nothing sheltered from the open sea, not even a sandbank, ships beaten by the east winds would have found no shelter.

They perceived by the tranquillity of the sea, in which no shallows troubled the waters, by its uniform color, which was stained by no yellow shades, by the absence of even a reef, that the coast was steep and that the ocean there covered a deep abyss.

Behind in the west, but at a distance of four miles, rose the first trees of the forests of the Far West.