Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 743 clearnefs, I faw feveral veffels which were making for different ports to {field themfelves from the threatened ftorm. For my part, I preferred the gulph of Patrixfiord, becaufe one of the diredtors of the Danifh company refided there, and the whole of the coaft offered fo fecure a road that, ufing an expreffion of Virgil, we may juffly denominate it, cc Sedes tutiffima navi.” I entered the gulph, founding all the way, I found continually from thirty to thirty-five fathoms water with a muddy bottom, and when I had doubled the warehoufes of the company, which I left to leeward a quarter of a league diftant, I anchored in twenty-two fathoms, with a muddy bottom. I flopped with the anchor a-peak for fometime, while we founded all round the frigate, and, when I found no dan- ger to be apprehended, I let out eighty fathom of cable, and moored S. E. and N. W. I then bore N. N. E. upon the warehoufes of the director, the pyramids of (tone which are the point of the gravel lying N. five degrees E., and the firft point out of the gulph bearing N. W. a quarter N., five degrees N. I could have anchored nearer the ihore more deep in the inlet, but it would not have been fo advantageous a pofition to fail from. The proper time to .anchor is on bearing N. and S. of the point of gravel. As foon as my frigate was moored, I went to the director of the Danifh company, whom I informed that the bad w'eather had forced me to anchor there ; that the king of France had fent me to preferve a proper difcipline and good order among the fifher- men, and to hinder their trading with the inhabitants of Iceland, or doing any thing which might be confidered as infringing the privileges of the company. The diredfor received me with a cool civility, and did not appear to give much credit to what I faid. It had been told him, that there were three French frigates in that latitude, for the pur- pofe of protecting a fmuggling trade with the inhabitants, and that we certainly had bad defigns; but very foon he was dilTuaded from fuch an opinion, and convinced of the contrary. The order which I preferved quickly deftroyed the wrong impreffions which had been ftamped on his mind refpedling us. I always kept a guard in my row-boats, never buffered any but the officers to go on Ihore, and, for any thing I wanted, addreffed myfelf to the director. The day after my arriving in the bay, the wind being ftill N. W., the fky clear, and the weather fufficiently mild, I founded the roadfled, and took bearings. For feveral days I continued the fame employment. I determined the pofition of the principal points by means of a rule with copper mountings, fumifhed with a telefcope, and con- trived to form a plan of the bay, on which reliance may be placed, as well for luffing as for anchoring, although not laid down with the niceft precifion. The twenty-ninth, at noon, a violent gale of wind arofe from the N. E. which lafted forty-eight hours. As I was moored at the foot of a high mountain which co- vered the ftation, the fea did not run very high ; but the fwiftnefs of the clouds, and the whirling of the wind in the rigging fhewed the force of the gale. The cold was intolerable; Reaumur’s thermometer was on the thirtieth at 40 below o. The ftorm drove to the entrance of the bay feveral large fragments of ice, detached in all proba- bility from the frozen ocean, which I had had fight of. The fight of thefe ifiets of ice furprized me lefts than the information which I received of the road of Patrixfiord having been, as it were covered wdth ice on the fourteenth of May. This is however what the dire&or told me, as w'ell as feveral of my officers. The ftorm occafioned thirty-fix fiftiing veffels, French and Dutch, to go into port; feveral of which had re- ceived damage, which I caufed to be repaired with diligence; fo that in three days fuch as had been injured were in condition to return to fea. SECOND

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