” a cloudy morning Some rain … Shore boald and rockey Several low Islands …at 3 miles entered a nitch of about 6 miles wide and 5 miles deep with Several Creeks … we …Call it the Shallow (nitch) Bay* Saw great numbers of fowl …here we found great numbers of flees which we treated with the greatest caution and distance … we took great advantage of a returning tide and proceeded on to the Second point on the Std. Here we found the Swells .. So high that we found it imprudent to proceed; we landed unloaded and Drew up our Canoes … we are all wet and disagreeable … we are compelled to form our Camp between the hite of the Ebb and flood tides, and raise our baggage on logs _” * Gray’s Bay