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is not so high there as on the eastern side. At a distance 
of four or five miles the sandy cliffs there look like a 
long fort of yellow sandstone, they are so level and 
regular, especially in Wellfleet, — the fort of the land 
defending itself against the encroachments of the Ocean. 
They are streaked here and there with a reddish sand 
as if painted. Farther south the shore is more flat, and 
less obviously and abruptly sandy, and a little tinge of 
green here and there in the marshes appears to the 
sailor like a rare and precious emerald. But in the 
Journal of Pring’s Voyage the next year (and Salterne, 
who was with Pring, had accompanied Gosnold) it is 
said, “ Departing hence [i. e. from Savage Rocks] we 
bore unto that great gulf which Captain Gosnold over¬ 
shot the year before.” ^ 
So they sailed round the Cape, calling the south¬ 
easterly extremity “ Point Cave,” till they came to an 
island which they named Martha’s Vineyard (now called 
No Man’s Land), and another on which they dwelt 
awhile, which they named Elizabeth’s Island, in honor 
of the queen, one of the group since so called, now 
known by its Indian name Cuttyhunk. There they 
built a small storehouse, the first house built by the 
English in New England, whose cellar could recently 
still be seen, made partly of stones taken from the beach, 
Bancroft says (edition of 1837), the ruins of the fort 
can no longer be discerned. They who were to have 
^ “ Savage Eock,’’ which some have supposed to be, from ftlie 
name, the Salvages^ a ledge about two miles off Eockland, Capo 
Ann, was probably the Nubble^ a large, high rock near the shore, on 
the east side of York Harbor, Maine. The first land made by Gos¬ 
nold is presumed by experienced navigators to be Cape Elizabeth 
on the same coast. (See Babson’s History of Gloucester, Massachu- 
tietts.) 
