“The country is not high, but formed of horizontal strata of some modern rock, which…forms abrupt cliffs facing the sea. It is…intersected by many sloping vallies, these are covered with turf & scattered over with thickets & trees, so as to present a cheerful appearance.”
December 16th 1832
“The harbour of Good Success is…surrounded …by low mountains of slate. These are of… rounded or saddle-backed shape, such as occurs in the less wild parts of N: Wales. They differ remarkably…in being clothed by a very thick wood of evergreens almost to the summit.”
December 17th 1832
Charles Darwin The Journal of a Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle
