Barry Docks by Friar's point. It had been a port in Medieval times. The island was about long and wide, with a height of above mean sea level. The mainland slopes up to the north, so the sound was well sheltered from the wind. No rivers or streams ran into the sound. The Bristol Channel is known for the range of its tides. During normal spring tides there is a range in water level of , and during normal neap tides a range of but tides can peak at around in which case sea water flows into the dock over the top
Investigations and prosecutions relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre so and then only in part) are set against Paiute accounts that absolve them from participation in the actual massacre. Historian Bagley believes "the problem with trying to tell the story of Mountain Meadows—the sources are all fouled up. You've either got to rely on the testimony of the murderers or of the surviving children. And so what we know about the actual massacre is—could be challenged on almost any point. _ " However, as Carleton mentions in his 1857 report, even Hamblin, the Indian agent who blamed the Paiutes for the massacre, admitted to him that in 1856 the