“Took a long walk; this side of the Island is very dreary: the land is low & undulating with stony peaks & bare ridges; it is universally covered by a brown, wiry grass, which grows on the peat. In this tract very few plants are found, & excepting snipes and rabbits scarcely any animals. The whole landscape from the uniformity of the brown colour, has an air of extreme desolation.”
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
March 3rd 1833
