Excerpt from the Diary of Col. Wm. Fairfax Gray:

Friday, April 8, 1836
“…The whole island is low, no part that I have seen ten feet above ordinary tide, and I am told has all been overflowed since the settlement of the country. The shores are very shoal, and no part presents a good site for a city. A considerable city must one day spring up on this bay, somewhere, but at what point yet uncertain… The island is forty miles long–only three trees on it. No habitation; fine pasturage. A great number of deer on the island."

ACTIVITY:
Compare and contrast Galveston Island today and as described by William F. Gray in 1836.