Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 774 they find a fafe afylum—Jlatio bene tufa carinis, This way out from Berghen by the north, although longer, is a much finer one than that by the fouth, called the Paffage of Cruxfiord, which is only fix leagues from Berghen. The courfe by Cruxfiord is fhorter, blit it is narrower alfo, and the anchorages are not fo good ; in other refpecls the wind, anu the deflination of the fhip, muff decide which to prefer, for on the fide of the paf- fages of Hennegat, or Holrnfiord, more to the north, the ground or rocks which form the beds of the water are very low ; there is no good land-mark, and the continental objects are very diftant. No danger however can occur from making land towar'ds the north, particularly in fine weather: pilots are met with every where; there are even four in the two iflands which form the paffage of Hennegat. Thefe pilots, who follow the trade of fifhermen as well, are always at fea. When the weather allows, as foon as they defcry a fhip, they hoift all fail, or row with all their might to reach her. This paffage is, according to my eftimate, in lat. 6o° 40'. I before obferved, that on leaving the pafs I fleered W. N. W. to leave the land, and enable myfelfto take advantage of whatever wind might blow. We had had a S. and :S. S. W. wind, and it might pofiibly get round to W. I run fifteen leagues, fleering W. N. W. andN. W. quarter N. The eleventh I was in lat. 61° 20', long, i9 34' W. of Paris. I ought not to forget to remark, that being by eflimation twelve leagues from Norway, I founded but found no bottom; but after proceeding eight or ten leagues farther I. found one hundred fathoms water, with a muddy grey fand, which confirms the obfervation before made, that the more one nears the coafl of Norway the greater the depth of water, the bottom becoming muddy ; and that the more one ap- proaches the coafl of Shetland, the more gravelly the bottom, mixed with black ftones ; and that in mid-channel there is feventy fathoms water, with a fine fandy bottom. The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, little wind, continually changing nil round the compafs. According to the variations I directed my courfe, and the fif- teenth, at noon, 1 found the lat. 65° 20', long. io° 5' from Paris. During the whole of thefe four days the fky was overcafl, but with a fine fea. The twelfth, we obferved 170 of variation, and we faw a prodigious bank of little red fifh, which had the appear- ance of a fand-bank, over which the fea broke for an extent of two leagues. Similar heaps of fifh are frequently met with in. thefe feas, which may caufe anxiety to navigators at the firfl fight, the more fo from their attra&ing prodigious flocks of fea-fowls, as is noticeable on fand banks. Thefe feas are alfo well peopled with whales. On the fif- teenth, in the morning, I faw a bird which merits defeription : it was as large as a goofe, with a white body ; but its head, its tail, its neck, and the end of its wings, were of a jet black. The fixteenth, the wind blew hard from the N. E., with a heavy fea ; I made a tack under main and fore-fail, conceiving myfelf to be E. quarter S. E. of the point of Lan- gernefs, and eighteen.leagues diflant. I kept on the N. W. and N. N. W. tack, and made the point of Langernefs at fix o’clock in the evening, bearing N. N. W., fix leagues diflant. As I was threatened with bad weather I made another tack, left the wind fliould get more to the E. I faw many fifhing vefiels luffing up to fhore. By night the wind blew high, with a dreadful fea. The eighteenth, the wind fomewhat fubfided, and the fea became calm ; this is what always happens in thefe climates: the fea fwelling and fubfiding continually with the wind, I fleered N. W. to make the land. I fpoke to feveral Dutch veflfels, and. to one Dunkirker, who informed me there was nothing new in the fleet. At fix o’clock in the evening, the weather ferene and clear. I made the point of land S. of Burgerfiord, at S. E. computedly diftaut eight leagues. It is to be remarked, that although the land- marks

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