“ The island is shrinking day by day, ” wrote Hoffmann after a visit in September, “and if this destruction, of which we were witnesses, proceeds..., the storms of the coming winter will suffice to demolish [it] within a few months. ”
Apmeklējis salu septembrī, profesors Hofmanis rakstīja, ka ” sala ar katru dienu sarūk, un, ja tas tā turpināsies.., ziemas vētras dažos mēnešos to pilnīgi nopostīs ”.