It appears at a distance very even; but as you come nigher you find there are many gentle risings, though none steep or high.

It is all a steep shore against the open sea; but in this bay or sound we were now in, the land is low by the seaside, rising gradually in with the land.

The mould is sand by the seaside, producing a large sort of samphire, which bears a white flower.

Farther in the mould is reddish, a sort of sand, producing some grass, plants, and shrubs.

The grass grows in great tufts as big as a bushel, here and there a tuft, being intermixed with much heath, much of the kind we have growing on our commons in England.