Kerguelen's voyage to the north. 754 by bailiffs. There are eighteen or twenty cantons, each of which comprifes fifteen or fixteen parilhes. All thefe pariffies are directed by two biihops ; one governs the northern, the other the foiithern part. The feat of the fovereign council is Beffefted, under the direction of a grand bailiff, who refides there. The king, for the receipt of taxes, maintains a fenefchal at the fame place. Thefe two principal officers render an account to the governor-general, who dwells at court. This is the whole of what is in- terefiing, without extending beyond the bounds I have prefcribed to rnyfelf, which I can fay of Iceland. I now take up the thread of my journal. third part. Containing the Courfe from Iceland to Berghen ; Defcription of Berghen, of Norway, and the Peoplefituated North of Norway. As I had ordered all the fiffiing veffels which the gale of wind of the twenty-ninth of May had obliged to take fhelter at Patrixfiord, to inform the whole fleet that I ffiould remain a fortnight longer in that road, in order to be nearer to render them affiftance, and that they might not be under neceffity of groping for me, as it were, in foggy wea- ther, I remained in the famepofition to the fifteenth of June. I ffiall here remark, that any king’s fhip which may be fent to proteCl the fifhery, can never be more effedually ferviceable than by giving a general rendezvous to all veffels who may ftand in need of fuccour or repairs ; for the fifhery of Iceland is fo extenfive, that it would require four frigates for its prote&ion; and there are in thefe climates fuch thick fogs, that it is fometimes impoffible to perceive a veffel at the diftance of mufket {hot. The fifteenth of June, in the morning, in the profpeft of a fouth wind, I caufed a final! anchor with a towing line to be heaved out to the S. S. W. to be the better enabled to raifeit eafily and quickly either from the frigate, or by means of my long-boat. The ftrength of the anchorage, the depth of water, and the projection of the inlet, inclined me to this expedient. It was calm all day, I weighed my two main anchors in the after- noon, and at nine in the evening, the wind fouthing, I fet fail. I did not fhip my oared cutters before I was out the points, left it fhould have fallen calm, and I have need of them to tow me. I forgot to obferve that fouth of the fouthern point of Patrixfiord, out- fide, is an inlet of yellow fand, which ferves as a mark at four leagues diftant, and is a. beacon on that fide. The fixteenth, I took bearings along the coaft. The feventeenth and eighteenth, the wind varied from W. N. W. to S. W. a light breeze, and foggy. The nineteenth, being in that part of the fea, and on the precife fpot where formerly were feveral iflands,,. under the name of Goubermans, I founded and found one hundred and forty fathoms of water, muddy bottom, mixed with herbs. The fketch of thefe iflands was taken by fome Danifh engineers, who drew the map of Iceland. The iflanders relate that they formerly confifted of nine; that they were no more than four leagues from the main ifland, and that they were fwallowed up dur- ing an earthquake”: what is certain refpeCting them is, that they are noticed in all maps, and that there now remains no veftige of them, their former refidence being that part of the coaft where now is the greateft depth of water. It is not more difficult to ima- gine that thefe iflands may have been fwallowed up by an earthquake, or owing to fubterraneous fires, than to conceive, as does a celebrated naturalift *, that Iceland itfelf * Egerhardus Ola, de lgne Subterraneo, page 14. % is

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