[D] This gully could not have been the ravine by which Clayton and Thalass ascended in their shore adventure. The gully must have been farther north.
[E] The episode of the cut cable and the driving ship remains obscure. The many indraughts of water caused by the creeks and waterfalls on this side of the island, however, must have occasioned many currents converging upon the shore. Accordingly, the cutting of the cable, or cables, of a ship anchored within the current-zone (the wind being subservient, or neutral), would cause that ship to drive ashore.
[F] Perhaps the explosion of the “grain” of the Doctor’s “combustible” which had “wrought the convulsion,” had, at the same time, released the pent-up forces of the “volcan.”
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.