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I 788 Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. of his attachment to the fervice in joining us. He had recently commanded a king’s fhip, and the fatigue of a new voyage full of hardlhips, had nothing in it to deter him. I had for the fourth officer M. Soyer de Vaucouleur, mailer ofafire-ffiip, who had com- manded feveral privateers, a man of the bell difpofition. I leftBreft the fifteenth of May, 1768, with a weak E. wind ; my intention was to pals by St. George’s channel, but the wind which came round to the N , blowing very frelh, and continuing feveral days prevented, me : I palled to the weft of Ireland, as on my firft voyage ; I kept however more clofely in Ihore, on account of the banks and high bottoms, which I before noticed. Nothing interefting occurred before the twenty-feventh, at eight in the evening. We had a frelh gale from the weft with a heavy fea ; and were lleering north, when we perceived before us a tide-bed, covered with fea weed and foam ; we were Ihortly in the midft of it, and the fea, every where elfe running very high, was here as calm and as even as in a pond ; except the furface of the fea’s trembling and boiling up the current, bearing us with rapidity to windward. I immediately brought to and founded ; we found no bottom, but lam perfuaded w’e were in the neighbourhood of rocks, the more fo from our being by reckoning between Rokol and St. Kilda illands: there is anchorage in eighteen fathoms water fouth eaft of the largeft of the St. Kilda illands, and a palfage between that, and the one which lays N. quarter N. E. of it. In cafe of need a velfel may anchor in this channel in twenty-fix fathoms water, fand and llony bottom. The thirty-firll, lleering north to make land, cape Heckla bearing by ellimation N. W. twenty leagues diftant, we encountered a furious gale of wind from the eaftward, with a thick fog. As the weather was unfeafonable for making land, and as I had a long way to make to the weft, I refolved on bearing W. N. W. and N. W. quarter W. before the wind, till the weather Ihould change and the Iky appear. My intention being in cafe the weather Ihould not clear up, to. fleer under bare poles, and Hand to fea till fuch time, as I Ihould find myfelf in the longitude of Birds’ illands. The firft of June, the wind fell towards night, but the fog continued very thick, which caufed me to keep on the fame tack, under ealy fail. The fecond, in the morning the fl<y being fomewhat clear, the wind Hill E. I fleered N. E. quarter N. in order to make land. At noon I found myfelf in latitude 63° 2o’, and continued the famecourfe ; at length, at two o’clock in the afternoon we' made the Birds’ illands. That which is neareft to Ihore bore N. E. quarter E., four leagues diftant, and another weft of the former bore N. W. I continued fome time, lleering N. E. quarter N. for the purpofe of getting in Ihore, at length I bore away at N. quarter N. E., to fall in with the illands, and pafs between the firft and the fecond, on the fide of the main land. The two illands are full two leagues afunder. I found in this palfage tide-beds and eddies, which made a dreadful noife. The direction or courfe of the tides is N. W. and S. E. North of the two illands between which I failed, I perceived the palfage between the main-land and the firft illand ; it appeared to ms fcarcely a league wide; on account of the currents, it ought not to be attempted ex- cept with a llrong and leading wind. A little north of thefe two illands, I faw three others at fea, which appeared to me to bear W. quarter N. W. of the former. All* thefe illands are but fnarp and inacceffible .rocks. I continued my courfe N. quarter N. E. to fall in with Mount Jeugel, and afterwards get under Bredervick point, where all the filhermen were alfembled. The fourth, I anchored at Patrixfiord, where I remained fome days to give to the French velfels what affiftance they needed. I fay nothing here of the bearings of the: anchorage, or what relates to it having already mentioned it before. After remaining ' eight
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Relation of a voyage in the North Sea, along the coasts of Iceland, Greenland, Ferro, Shetland the Orcades, and Norway, made in the years 1767 and 1768

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1808
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