Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 756 The refemblance of the bottom which I found with that of the environs of the rock, feems to confirm the exigence of it. Before leaving Iceland, it is right I fhould impart to the reader the knowledge I was enabled to acquire of the ports fituated weft and north of the ifland. I fhall begin with Adelfiord, north of Lufbaye, and fhall continue the fame to the point of Langernefs. Adelfiord, or the bay which bears that name, is very extenfive and deep, but the an- chorage is bad for large veffels, as the coaft is rugged, and it is neceffary to anchor clofe to the fhore. The fifhing veffels lying at anchor have the poop fo near the land, that the failors go on fhore by means of a plank laid from the fhip’s fide. The bay of Direfiord is as fine and as large as that of Lulbaye; there is no danger in entering it, care being taken of the fqualls of wind which come from the gorges, as I before mentioned in fpeaking of Patrixfiord. The anchorage is good every where for veffels of war. At the bottom of the bay are two points in the fhape of a fugar-loaf, which at fea are taken for two pyramidal illands, and which mark the bay of Direfiord on coming from fea. The bay of Weft Norderfiord is as extenfive as the preceding ; there is good anchor- age in the firft inlet to larboard on entering, but it is fuitable to thofe veffels only which mean to fail again diredtly, for fhelter it is better to proceed higher up. In the middle of the bay there is twenty five fathoms water ; but at the extremity the anchorage is in iixteen to eighteen fathoms, with good bottom: there are rocks both on the larboard and ftarboard quarter on entering, but they are all above water. The bay of Pikhol is too open, it is fit only for fifhing veffels or corvettes, the an- chorage is clofe to the minifter’s houfe, where there is fhelter under the north point. The bay of Bolk-Bogt is more properly a gulph than a bay; it is little known. The fifhermen feldom proceed up it; notwithftanding an owner or mafter told me, that he had once failed to the bottom of the bay, and that behind a point of land which pro- jedts, he found moft excellent anchorage bfelow the houfe of the fadtor of the com- pany. Pie even faid, if he were obliged to winter in Iceland, he fhould prefer this fpot to any. The roads of Seertel Bay are very fine, there is excellent anchorage for all flipping : a fhip may anchor to ftarboard on entering after doubling a point, but the beft anchor- age is at the foot of a remarkable cliff at the bottom of the Roadfted. Thefe roads are diftinguifhable by a hill of grey fand, perceptible at a great diftance. In the bay of Radkol there is anchorage in twelve fathoms water, with a fandy bot- tom. There is fhelter from the wind on the fouth and the eaft, but with a N. or W. wind a veffel would be much expofed. The roads of Rakbaye are very large and very good ; fifty veffels of war might eafily anchor in them ; the beft place for cafting anchor is at the extremity of the bay, on the foyth fide, half a league from fhere. Drift wood is met with here, caft on fhore by the fea. In going out of Rakbaye the North Cape is on the ftarboard quarter. Eaftward of the North Cape, on the fide of the gulph of Orgel Bokt, there is a cafcade or riven, which falls in large volumes of foam, and with a confiderable noife ; it is a land’s mark on the coaft. This cafcade or river is called Watalope. In the whole of the gulph of Orgel Bogt, there is only the bay of eaft Nordefiord, where a frigate can take refuge; its anchorage is to ftarboard on entering, two cables’ length from the cabins of the Icelanders. The fifhermen go for anchorage to the bot- tom of the bay ; but they muft pafs a bar, over which at low water there is only twelve feet depth. The fea throws wood on fhore here alfo y a river empties itfelf into

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