Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 7S7 tins bay which abounds in falmon. At the eaftern point of the gulph there is a reef, or chain of rocks, which proceeds farther out than is noticed in the Dutch maps. Eaftward of this reef four iflands are diftinguifhed pretty high, and very lofty, the fourth is at the entrance of Klipbaye, where there is anchorage clofeto fhore, either on the ftarboard or larboard quarter ; but heed mud be taken of a large bank in the middle of the bay, and which does not allow of luffing. Eaftward of the four iilands a large flat ifland is feen, called Ulakiland, at the foot of which weft ward there is an anchorage. This ifland is in the S. one quarter S. E. correfted, from the ifle of Grims, where the anchorage is in the fouthern part. There is ftielter from the north, but a vefiel there muft be prepared to fail upon its blowing S. E. or S. W. The tides run very ftrong, the direction of them E. and W. Good anchorage is found at the point of Roodchoke, in ten fathoms, with fandy bottom, fouth of a round rock, which is fafe and very diftingfliable ; fheltered from S. E. winds. There is beftdes good anchor- age at Oudeman, fafe from all winds, to S., but when it veers to the N. the fhip muft change her birth. This is the fummary of what I learned from experience in my own vefiel, and from feveral fhhermen with whom I frequently converfed on this fubjedt. Lower down I fhall fpeak of the roads and ports of the eaft fide. I do not conceive that" any one will be furprifed in reading this journal at noticing my entrance, whether by night or day into all the ports of Iceland. No one is ignorant that under the poles there is fix months of day, and the fame length of night ; that the nearer the poles are approached, the longer the days and the nights, according to the feafon of the year. ‘Every one knows alfo, that the fun gives its light by refradlion when below the horizon and that this is called twilight; that that which precedes the rifing is called the dawn, or morning twilight, and that that follows its fetting is named the twilight, or evening twilight; moreover, that the farther the obferver proceeds from the equator, the longer the twilight. Thus it may readily be conceived, that in Iceland, which extends north- ward as far as to the polar circle, by favour of the twilight a continual day reigns from May to September, fo as to enable a perfon to read and write at midnight, and that the fun does not fet below the horizon for eight days before and eight days after the fuai- mer folftice: that is to fay, from the tv/elfth of June to the firft of July. The twenty fourth the wind varied, making the entire circle of the compafs ; fome-. times gentle and at others violent, but continually a heavy fea. I fleered S. one quarter S. W. ; and the twenty-fifth at noon was in latitude 6o° 58', and longitude W. of Paris 190 30b By the map I perceived I was 3°E. of Ferro, 110 leagues diftant, ac- cording to the chart of Mr. Beilin ; and acording to the Dutch charts, from the fame ftation, Ferro bore E. N. E. 42 leagues diftant, making a difference of 68 leagues, or nearly 7° in that latitude. The rock at S. of thefe iflands, according to Mr. Beilin, is in latitude 6t° 17': according to the Dutch 6i°44': that is to fay, 27° more N. Thefe- differences as well in latitude as longitude furprifed me, and made me hefitate as to the courfe to fleer. I refolved, at length, to make the fouthern point of the ifles of Ferro, according to the latitude defcribed by Mr. Beilin., I fleered accordingly and obferved the variation of the needle in the evening to be the fame as the day before, 230 30b The twenty-fixth at noon, having made 43 leagues of way under a frefb breeze from the E S. E,, I obferved the latitude to be the fame as the day before, 6 a 0 58',.. and the longitude 140 58b As I had no difference of latitude after having fleered E. S. E. for twenty-four hours with great circumfpe.dtion, I, conjectured.that the diffe-- rence arofe from two points of wind, or 22° 30b 7 he twenty-feventh, at three o’clock in the morning, having run E. one quarter S; E., with a N. and N. N. W. wind from the twenty-fixth at noon, the wind frefh with a high ica*.

(1) Band
(2) Band
(3) Saurblað
(4) Saurblað
(5) Blaðsíða 735
(6) Blaðsíða 736
(7) Blaðsíða 737
(8) Blaðsíða 738
(9) Blaðsíða 739
(10) Blaðsíða 740
(11) Blaðsíða 741
(12) Blaðsíða 742
(13) Blaðsíða 743
(14) Blaðsíða 744
(15) Blaðsíða 745
(16) Blaðsíða 746
(17) Blaðsíða 747
(18) Blaðsíða 748
(19) Blaðsíða 749
(20) Blaðsíða 750
(21) Mynd
(22) Mynd
(23) Blaðsíða 751
(24) Blaðsíða 752
(25) Blaðsíða 753
(26) Blaðsíða 754
(27) Blaðsíða 755
(28) Blaðsíða 756
(29) Blaðsíða 757
(30) Blaðsíða 758
(31) Blaðsíða 759
(32) Blaðsíða 760
(33) Blaðsíða 761
(34) Blaðsíða 762
(35) Blaðsíða 763
(36) Blaðsíða 764
(37) Blaðsíða 765
(38) Blaðsíða 766
(39) Blaðsíða 767
(40) Blaðsíða 768
(41) Blaðsíða 769
(42) Blaðsíða 770
(43) Blaðsíða 771
(44) Blaðsíða 772
(45) Blaðsíða 773
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(47) Blaðsíða 775
(48) Blaðsíða 776
(49) Blaðsíða 777
(50) Blaðsíða 778
(51) Blaðsíða 779
(52) Blaðsíða 780
(53) Blaðsíða 781
(54) Blaðsíða 782
(55) Blaðsíða 783
(56) Blaðsíða 784
(57) Blaðsíða 785
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(59) Blaðsíða 787
(60) Blaðsíða 788
(61) Blaðsíða 789
(62) Blaðsíða 790
(63) Blaðsíða 791
(64) Blaðsíða 792
(65) Blaðsíða 793
(66) Blaðsíða 794
(67) Blaðsíða 795
(68) Blaðsíða 796
(69) Blaðsíða 797
(70) Blaðsíða 798
(71) Blaðsíða 799
(72) Blaðsíða 800
(73) Blaðsíða 801
(74) Blaðsíða 802
(75) Blaðsíða 803
(76) Blaðsíða 804
(77) Saurblað
(78) Saurblað
(79) Band
(80) Band
(81) Kjölur
(82) Framsnið
(83) Kvarði
(84) Litaspjald