Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 794 bank to ftarboard on entering. Luckily a floop belonging to the port was there, which quickly carried a lafhing to the moorings of the eaftern or larboard fide of the jetties on entering. On coming from the north to make Offend, two towers at fir ft are diftin- guifhed, the largeft of which has a ffeeple, and belongs to the parifh church ; the other, which is terminated by a gallery, is that of the clock of the town-houfe. In making the land the one muff be kept in line with the other, until you reach the buoy, which is at the weftern extremity of the traverfe, on which is a little red flag ; this muff be kept to larboard : you then fleer for the eaftern jetty, which is the fafeft, and which you muff keep clofe to, whether in coming in or going out. At high water you pafs over the Strcom and the Traverfe : on thefe two banks the water rifes eighteen feet. A pilot, kept for the purpofe, takes care at half-flood to hoifl a fmall blue flag, in order to fliew that fmall veffels can enter. To give information to large veffels that they may enter, he hoilts a large blue, flag, on which there is an eagle. When none is hoifled, it is a fign of there not being fufficient water; in that cafe, if the fhip be at fea, fhe muff either tack or caff anchor: a veil'd may anchor in the roads, or moor on the Stroom; and W. N. W. of the Traverfe, in fix or feven fathoms wrater, with fandy bottom. The fpring- tides rife nineteen feet, and neap-tides fourteen feet. At low water there is but lix or feven feet on the Stroom. The mode of avoiding it is to keep the two towers open, by about the fpacc of the fize of the hrgeft tower, which muff be kept to the eaft. At the eaftern point of that bank there are three fathoms water. There is only three feet water on the Traverfe, or bar, and even but two a little eaft of the jetty, at the end of the moorings. In fhort, to enter Offend, great attention muff be paid to the time of high water, which is at twelve o’clock in that port, and new and full at three o’clock upon the banks out at fea. Attention muff be paid as well to the flood running with rapidity E. N. E., on which account a fhip fhculd fleer a little within the eaftern jetty,, and manage the fails according to the wind. The entrance of the port, or of the jetties, iis S. S. E. and N. N. W.; but after having palled the bank on the ftarboard quarter on entering, the port makes an elbow, and bears to the S. S. W. If a veflel be obliged to enter into port without a pilot, and if the wind be ftrong, fhe muff be ready to caff an- chor on the ftarboard fide as foon as fhe has pafled the bank which is at the entrance of the port, and laid the veflel S. S. W. ; for in cafe of not anchoring, fhe would be carried away by the current to the mud-banks at the bottom of the port. Offend is very com- modious for every fhip under forty guns; but it keeps filling up every day, particularly fince a dam has been thrown up to prevent the overflowing of Polder St. Catherine, which is nearly two thoufand five hundred acfes of new well cultivated land. In this fpace, lately overflowed by the tide, the fineft bafin in theuniverfe might be conftrufted, by forming a fluice in the middle of the dam, made thirty years ago to oppofe the ilium ^ dation. The Offenders will be able to cleanfe and excavate their port as much as they pleafe by means of the waters which they may dam up after flood in the Sandfort. In refpedt to the bank on the infide of the jetties to ftarboard on entering, it is eafy to deftroy it, by making an elbow upon the eaftern jetty to change the direction of the drifts, by an angle of reflexion equal to the angle of incidence : the waters of the flue -fluice of Schlick, although very diftant and badly placed, would be fufficient to carry aivay the bank. If this fluice had been placed nearer to the trading port, at the entrance of the canal of Bruges, its defence and its ufe would have been united; inftead of which; it is of very little fervice where it is towards cleanfing the port, and very difficult to pro- tect from the attacks of an enemy. The town of Oftend is fmall, but very pretty ; it rendered itfelf famous during the wars of the Low Countries. Oftend takes its name from its fituation ; as it is at the extremity of Flanders, on the eaftern fide, it is called Oftend

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