248 FORTEAU BAY. 



Forteau Bay is very similar to Loup bay. It is about twice as 

 deep, and more triangular in shape, while the eastern extremity 

 bends inward much like an inverted comma, giving the appearance 

 almost of a second bay infringing upon the first. The eastern side 

 seems to have been formed by the washing away of the limestone 

 ridges which are here several hundred feet high, and extending far 

 back into the country. The western side is principally of limestone 

 which recedes to the top of the cHffs beyond, at a height of about 

 four hundred feet. The bottom of the bay is mostly a sandy beach, 

 except where occasional outcrops of rock appear. There is a 

 small stream here also, as in nearly every bay along the coast, that 

 seems to drain the remains of some former extension of this same 

 bay, from the low and extended valley beyond. I noticed particu- 

 larly the cliffs on the eastern side, which reached almost to the sea, 

 and were nearly perpendicular ; whose stratifications were apparent 

 even from our vessel, and whose uneven fractures presented the 

 appearance of ruined towers or castles and temples. I plucked 

 several sweet-scented spring flowers ; and saw with pleasure signs 

 of the springing into new life of evergreen as well as alders, shrubs 

 and closely clustered vegetation everywhere abundant. 



Our stay here was short, however, and a fair breeze soon brought 

 us again to Greenley Island. I will describe it. 



Greenley Island is a low island, scarcely seventy feet, at most, 

 above the sea level. The northern part is short and wide, the 

 southern point long and blunt. Several rising hillocks mark the 

 centre of the island ; from these the land slopes on one side close 

 to the sea, on the other to the western portions of the island which 

 are covered with rocks and bowlders as if once the terminal mo- 

 raines of a glacier, yet much waterworn ; while the water beyond is 

 clear and sandy. On the east, and I think also the north side of the 

 island is sand ; on the southwest the rocks extend but a little distance 

 into the water, while on the east point is an immense flat table of 

 rock, seamed, scarred, and rounded by the water, which covers it 

 at low tide. This is a curiously formed ledge of granite, and does 

 not appear to have been broken excepting by the scars of time and 

 water, yet it appears to form the underwork of this part of the island. 



