icerguelen’s voyage to the north. 738 fea, efpecially in bad weather, I wondered that any man enjoying a fufficiency could be induced to truft himfelf twice to the mercy of the winds and billows : fortunately for this condition of life, one hour of fair weather obliterates the remembrance of days of danger and toil. The ninth, we had the fame weather, the wind was equally boifterous, and the fea as ’tremendous as before ; I hill kept all fails reefed : once I attempted to fet the main-top- gallant and the mizen, in order to pafs by day-light the latitude of another bank marked on all the Dutch charts, and the exigence of which the experienced pilots I had on board allured me had been verified by the lofs of feveral veffels ; but I was obliged to haul in the main-top-gallant. This bank, according to the Dutch accounts, extends from N. to S. eleven leagues, and from E. to W. about five leagues. I caufed it to be marked on our charts. I do not affirm there being any very high ffielving or dangerous fand in this pofition ; but I am perfuaded, from the prodigious number of birds, the multitude of them of thofe fpecies which only refort to lhallows, and from the frequent Striking of the waves againft the veffel, that there is a bank there. Several times during the day, and in the evening, I founded, but without finding a bottom : when exhaufted by the bad weather, and the violent rolling to which u'e had been Subject for two days, I was anxious to get fome reft, and laid down, after ordering the officer of the watch to found at midnight; which was done. After letting out fixty-five fathoms of line, they cried bottom, becaufe the lead did not draw any longer; but as the tallow with which the lead is loaded to take the impreffion of the bottom ffiewed nothing, they thought they might have been deceived, and did not wake me, which I had ordered them to do, in cafe of finding bottom. I conjecture that we palled the edge of the bank, and fa- thomed it, and which perfuades me was the cafe : on examining by day-light the large end of the lead to which the tallow is applied, I found adhering to it fome fine grains of fand, the roughnefs of which was diftinguiffiable by the finger ; and I conceive that the violent agitation of the waves might have walked the lead on heaving it up, and the more eafily from the grains of fand being very fine and mixed with mud. The tenth and eleventh, the fame weather Hill continued, violent eaft winds and very high fea. On the eleventh at noon, I was by reckoning in 6 i°2o' latitude, and longitude 190 30' weftward of Paris, in the afternoon the wind .veered to the S. E.; it was lefs impetuous, I deemed the weather notwithftanding too bad to make land, but at four o’clock feeing feveral veffels called Doggers, which went before the wind to the N. W.; I judged that they who were filhermen going to Iceland had fallen in the day before, and recognized the illes of Ferro, and Satisfied with refpeft to their pofition, they bent their courfe to fall in with the illandsof Wefterman, which are to the S. of Iceland. The courfe of thefe doggers, and the tirefomenefs of the bad weather, engaged me to go before the wind. I did not, like the filhermen, however, keep direClly before the wind, but fleered N. N. W., in order to make land higher up, that is to fay, more to the eaft than the Wefterman iflands. I kept on this tack all night, and until five the next morning, the twelfth of May, when 1 made cape Heckla; I then fteered W. N. W. for the Wefterman iflands, which I faw at eight o’clock. I took an altitude at noon, and from the difference of latitude by obfervation from that of bearings, I found that on the large chart of M. Beilin, pub- lished in 1767, the coaft was laid down in general 8' more to the S. than what it ought to be. Off cape Heckla, in the morning, we noticed the variation of the compafs was 290. I obferved that cape Heckla had two points Stretching from E. to W. We faw alfo mount Heckla, which is nearly in the N. W., cgrrefted by the cape. The volcano

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