Kerguelen's voyage to the north. 783 ■wood grows on any of the iflands. They follow the reformed religion. Thefe iflands are well peopled ; above all, round the coafts, which prefent feveral bays, creeks, ports, and anchorages. Mainland ifland is feventeen leagues long from N. to S., and five leagues from E. to W. at an average. This ifland alone includes more ports and anchorages than the iflands of Yelle, Unit, and all the others together. I {hall fpeak of thofe only even which are in Mainland, the others not being frequented, nor fit to receive veflels of any burthen, as well that fhips of any defcription abfolutely require pilots of the place Y for fleering them. Let us begin with the fouthern part of Mainland, where there is anchorage for a fquadron of ten veflels north of a finall ifland called Pard-ifle. The en- trance into this road is either by the E. or W. 0/ this ifland, which is lafe; and the an- chorage is in twelve to fixteen fathoms water, bottom of large land. This road is at the extremity of a very high and diflinguifhable cape, called Swineburger-bead. This is the belt in this part. Mr. Beilin defignates three other anchorages between this cape and cape Fitzul, which is the moil weftern point of the fouthern lands, but thefe an- choring places are bad, being expofed to hurricanes of wind, which render the leas dreadful. There is only Quendale-bay which can receive large veflels. It is large and fpacious ; there is an eafy entrance, and an eafy way out. On all the weftern fide there is only one road fit to receive veflels of war, it is that which the Dutch call Magny- fiord. Its entrance is three leagues N. of the cape, called Fitzul by the French. O11 the eaftern part are the belt ports and anchorages. Four leagues N. of Swineburger- head, towards the E., a little ifland is feen, called Connix ifle, which with the large ifland, forms an excellent road, called Hamburger-haven; there is eight fathoms wa- ter ; it may be entered by the N. or by the S.: but the beft harbour of the whole of the Shetland Ifles is that of I.aerwyck, which is four leagues more to the N. than, the laft. The roads of Laerwyck would contain a whole fleet. Every year about St. John's day, five hundred fifhing veflels are feen anchored before the town of Laerwyck. The Dutch, who every year refort to thefe coafts for the herring fifhery, call thefe roads the Great-bay, or Brafla-found, on account of the ifland of Brafla, which forms the harbour and protects it from the eaft winds. To enter Brafla-found from the fouth, Brafla muft be left to ftarboard at a cable’s length, and the courfe be continued up . the channel till you come before the town of Leerwick, where there is anchorage in five, ten, or fifteen fathoms, according as you go near to, or keep diftant from fhore. North of the town are the veftiges of a fort w'hich commanded the roads, and which was deftroyed by Mr. Bart. The entrance of the road of Laerwyck is eafily known by Nofs ifland, which is alfo called Hanging-cliff, on account of a remarkable rock which hangs over into the fea, forming a natural vault. This ifland is eaft of Brafla, and ferves as a landmark for the port of Laerwyck; the fleet enters fouth of Brafla, and the eddy confequently carries them to the fouth. 1 he tide is ftronger towards the north of the channel, and the paffage more difficult. This is the mode of getting out through the paflage called North Sound, and thefe the precautions neceflary to be taken. I ob- ferved that the flood bore to the north. You fteer fo as to leave to ftarboard a fmall ifland, called the Holm of Crueller, at about a milei’s diftance, on account of the rocks which are under water at half a quarter of a league to the weft of the ifland. When this ifland is paft, and bears E. quarter S. E., there is nothing further to be ap- prehended from the rocks called Fabarre. You continue your courfe, keeping mid- channel, until you perceive the channel begin to narrow; then, in order to avoid a bank, which is in the middle of the narroweft part of the channel, and over which there is but twelve feet at low water, you muft pafs by either on the one o.r the other fide

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