"A multitude of rarreg, craggy, sharpe pointed hard rocks for miles along the shoare and up toward the land. appearing white with the dung of sea foule, of which there were innumerable of severall kinds. The most desolate barren land (and like a land thatt God has cursed) thatt my eies beeheld......I conceave the whole world affords nott such another peece of ground, most part the collour of burnt bricke, reddish, the substance stones, somewhat like pumice stones, the rest like cinders and burnt earth".