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"23 March 1860 - Landed in a bay completely land-locked, our Camping Ground being on a shell bank - the acumulation of years, eveidently, as it averaged ten feet high, from thirty-five to forty feet through, by 120 yards long. It was the work of Indians, as they live very much on a shell-fish called "Clams", and of course deposit the shells just outside their huts, hence the bank I mentioned. The brush wood grew quite down to the water's edge, in the rear the forest was growing in undisturbed tranquility, yellow Pine, White Pine, cedar, Alder and Willows in the low flat ground are the general features of the North end of the Island."
  
--- Sergeant William Joy, Royal Marine Light Infantry, describing the landing at Garrison Bay.