*78 Kerguelen’s voyage to the north, is a frightful current fouth of this ifland near the illets, or rocks called Daflnipen and Dasflets. South of the ifland Sandoe, are two fmall iflands called Skuoe and Stoeredi- men. This laft, which is a mile in circumference, is a round rock fo rugged as to be in- acceflible. South of this is Lutteldimen, where as often as white flieep are put, they turn black at the end of three months. 6. Suderoe, this ifland is about twenty miles in circumference. Here is the port of Lpbroe, at the bottom of the fmall gulph of Vaago-ftord. This port is one of the fafeft and molt commodious in the ifland. There is a very violent and dangerous current at the fouth of this ifland, near to Somboe, and round a rock called the Monk, which is a league and a half from fhore; and which muft not be neared too clofely, for I have feen breakers, which extended more than a quarter of a league. ’Tis faid there is a mountain called Famogen, in the ifland Suderoe, on which is a lake that ebbs and flows at the fame time as the fea at Lobroe. It is high water at the Ferro iflands, at new and full moon at twelve o’clock. Thefe iflands are fubjedl to fogs, which caufe colds, fcurvy, and other maladies, refulcing from damp* They are nothing but rocks covered with a little earth, fertile enough, however to ren- der twenty for one. Their only crop is barley. Flocks of flieep form the riches of the inhabitants, who are reckoned at twenty thoufand fouls. The whole trade of thefe iflands confifts in tallow, fkins, falted mutton, feathers, ederdown, dockings, and wool- len caps, and fhirts. Thefe iflands are pretty well fet down on the Neptune, as well as on the chart of M. Beilin. The rock called the Monk, which is fouth of thefe iflands, and which from a diftance appears like a building, is in longitude 90 5' weft of Paris. Upon taking obfervations on a line running E. and W. through the rock, I found it to lay in6i° 17'. I compute the variation to the fouth of the iflands of Ferro, to have been 190. The Orcades are a heap of iflands lying north of Scotland, from which they are feparated only by the ftrait ofPentland, which is two leagues and a half broad, and four leagues long; there are fixty-feven of them, of which twenty-eight are inhabited. 'Thefe iflands were very little known to the ancients, for hiftories do not agree upon their number. Pliny and Pompenius Mela, do not reckon more than forty. They doubt- lefs conftdered fome of thefe iflands called Holms, by the inhabitants, and which are very fmall as rocks, which however yield excellent palture. Thefe iflands were formerly governed by feparate kings, but the Scotch dethroned them, and became mailers; the Danes, or rather the Norwegians, afterwards feized upon them, but in 1472, the Scotch re-took them. They are now a province of England; they belong to Lord Merton : their contribution to the ftate is no more annually than five hundred pounds fterling. The climate is healthy, but cold and damp. Their crops are chiefly barley, which thrives abundantly. The inhabitants have plenty of cattle, and are much given to filh- ing ; fo that filh and fait beef form the principal trade of the iflands. Neverthelefs they furnilh tallow, leather, fait, rabbit-lkins, barley, and woollen fluffs. The coafts of thefe iflands poffefs excellent bays and creeks, but they muft be known to be entered with- out danger, for the tides are ftrong, and the currents violent. The mailer of a Dun- kirker related to me a ftriking anecdote of the currents of the Orcades; he told me that being becalmed in a privateer belonging to Dunkirk, nearly two leagues from fhore on the northern fide, the privateer was drawn by the current into the midft of the iflands ; upon this he call anchor, but his cable was cut in an inftant, and the veflel was on the brink of being loft; when fome fijhermen came on board, who by the help of a light breeze, condu&ed her out to the weft of the iflands, after having palled through much danger, and by dreadful eddies. The mariner from whom I gathered this, confelfed to me that they were mortally afraid that their pilots, with whofe nation they were at war, were

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