On the Gulf, Tuesday, June 30. Did not sleep once at all last night due to the shaking of the boat. The cabins are all astern and one feels the constant moving of the machinery. Got up at 8 and had breakfast which is much better cooked and served on this steamer than on the Davog. Around the Minjan Islands and again along the North Shore one sees very distinctly an elevated beach (partly of glacial material) fronting the higher land. Along the North Shore beyond this elevated beach extend the higher lands, a rugged country of mountains in this last stage of erosion before being reduced to rounded featureless elevations. When did this elevation occur? Was from the top eroded the former Ordovician and