Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 739 of this mountain, one of the moil confiderable on earth, is known from its frequent, and fometimes terrible, eruptions : towards the clofe of this journal I lhall fpeak of it more particularly. Between cape Heckla and the Welterman iflands the land falls in in the bay, owing to which I underhand there is a good anchorage. Above all, behind the weftern point of cape Heckla there are excellent moorings, well Iheltered : to go up them requires a fouth or welterly wind. There are nyany paffages between the Wef- terman iflands, but they are little known, being unfrequented, except by Iceland fifher- men ; ncverthelefs fome fifiling fmacks lay off there to filh, and I faw a dogger from Dunkirk which had in a week’s time caught fevenly tons of cod there. A violent cur- rent runs between all thefe ifiands ; they appeared to me to ftretch more to the S. W. than what they are defcribed in the French and Dutch maps. The diltance of the Welterman ifiands to the weltern point of Heckla is well laid down on the chart of M. Beilin. The currents run to the W. N. W. from cape Heckla to the ifle of Birds ; but in the midfl of thefe iflands they run N. W. with dreadful eddies. At new and full moon it is high water at eleven o’clock. Between the Welterman ifiands and the point of Iceland contiguous to the ifle of Birds, there is anchorage under Ihelter from the N. wind ; but if the wind Ihould happen to change, it is necefifary to weigh anchor imme- diately and put out to fea. All this coalt is very healthy, and there is a very fine paf- fage through the middle of the ifles of Birds. About twenty leagues to the S. of the weltern point of Iceland there is a heap of rocks, which form a low and dangerous illand ; it was not defcribed in our charts, but is known to the Dutch : it has often been feen. An inhabitant of Iceland, a man of great fenfe and learning, who has frequently been to Copenhagen, and who has even wrote an abridged account of the natural hiltory of Iceland, has often fpoke to me of this dangerous illand, only defcribed in Dutch charts. Having fent him a large French chart of Iceland, on which I had marked with pencil the fituation of this heap of rocks according to the Dutch ; he wrote to thank me in Latin, which was the lan- guage through the medium of which I was enabled to enjoy his learned and inftructive converfation ; and fpeaking of this illand this was his remark : “ Laetus video te ipfum notavifle fcopulos quos ipfe femel vidi tranfeundo.” I fee with pleafure that you have noticed the rocks, which I faw alfo in failing by. On the twelfth, at fix in the evening, the winds began to blow pretty ftrongly from the N. E. I fleered N. W. quarter W., with no canvafs out, in order that I might not pafs by the ifles of Birds before day-light. The wind drove us nine knots, that is to fay, three leagues an hour, without a fail up. At two in the morning, lying N. and 5. of the moll weltern of the iflands, according to reckoning, I was defirous of carrying fail to haul the wind ; but as it was too violent, I was obliged to be content with the main and mizen-fail part reefed. The thirteenth, by obfervation at noon, I was in lat. 63° 15', and by reckoning in long. 26s 15' W. of Paris. In the night between the thirteenth and fourteenth the wind became furious; I low- ered the mizen-yard to reef in the fail, and at one in the morning the force of the wind was fo great that the waves could not rife, and the fea was covered with foam. A matter which altonilhed me was to fee in the height of the gale thoufands of birds co- vering the furface of the main, unappalled by the approach and motion of the veffel: the force of the wind had driven them I imagined from the iflands of Birds. This continual violent weather began to try my frigate, which was an old one ; fire leaked, and we were obliged every two hours to keep at the pump. The apprehenfion of being obliged to make a port without being able to complete my million began to give me 5 b 2 uneafinefs;

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