Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 75° I am furprized that M. Anderfon could repeat fuch idle tales, for my part all that I re- late is credible. During our day in Iceland we killed a number of thefe birds both male and female, and I remarked that the down taken from the male, which has many white feathers, is much more fine and delicate than that of the female. The quantity of fifli of every fort with which Iceland abounds is aftonilhing : they are fifhed for all the year about; but the moft fuitable feafon is from March to Sep- tember. The fifhery produces herrings, cod, haddock, hollebut, foies, plaice, maids, mackarel, ray fifh, &c. All thefe filh are well known, but we caught of them fome unufually large ; a maid one day, for example, which weighed three hundred pounds. The moft fingular fifli of this iflarid is that we call the wolf-fifh, which the Icelanders name Jleen bit (ftone-eater) ; when opened it is always found full of little ftones or .gravel : it feeds alfo upon fmall cod, which it is continually purfuing. As often as the weather will allow, the Icelanders go fiflung in the bays, or even as far as a league or two to fea ; they embark for the purpofe in fmall boats, which are called by them yawls. The moft common and moft advantageous fifli for the inhabitants is the cod, which they know by the name of forfch; it is their principal article of barter ; they maintain themfelves by exchanging it againft whatever they have occafion for. It is this fifli that the French and Dutch go to fifli for in the months from March to September. The veffels they ufe are called doggers, and are of about an hundred tons burthen. The filhery begins at the head-land of Bederwick, and ends at the point of Langenefs, going Tound by the North cape and the ifland of Grims. The people fifli with the hook, which is -furniflied with a bit of raw meat, or the heart of a fifli newly taken. The Trench and Dutch doggers ufually fifli at the diftance of five or fix leagues from Ihore, in forty to fifty fathoms water. Many veffels even go fifteen leagues to fea, and filh in one hundred fathoms water. When the cod is taken the head is cut off; it is well Walhed and cured, and afterwards put in calks with rock or Lifbon fait. Thus is this fifhery carried on, which employs annually about eighty French and two hundred Dutch fhips. Cod fifli thus prepared is white and delicate, rock fait contributing to preferve its whitenefs, not precipitating a dirty fediment, like French fait. It is furprifing, on noticing the great quantity of cod that is annually taken on the great bank, in the north, ,‘&c. that the fea Ihould not be exhaufted ; but a naturalift, who had the patience to enumerate the eggs of a cod, and who found in one only 9,344,000 eggs, has fufficiently fatisfied us that its increafe muft exceed its deftruction. After the cod, the moft common fifli is the herring, along the coafts, and throughout the north fea, the fifhery of which is infinitely produ&ive to the hyperborean nations. This fifh is fo numerous, tliatit is calculated that the whole taken by the fifhermen of the north, bears proportion to the number which populate the fea as one to a million only. This fifhery fupports more than one hundred thoufand people in Holland. M. Fluet values the annual produce of the Dutch fifhery at twenty five millions, of which feventeen millions are gain, and the cxpences eight. Doot affirms that in 1688 the number of four hundred and fifty thou- fand Dutchmen were employed in the herring-fifhery and its concerns. A great number of whales are met with, particularly in the funimer, on the coaft of Iceland. I have feen twelve or fifteen together, five or fix leagues from fliore, north of Bird’s ifland ; I fired about twenty cannon-fhot at them to exercife my gunners, and wounded feverai. In Iceland they catch a quantity of falmon; and in the lakes, fuch as the myvarne, of which I have before fpoken, numbers of excellent trout are met with, which the inhabitants dry and fait. Eels as welfare very common ; but the Icelanders have a .particular antipathy to them. After

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