802 Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. could not cut him off, he arrived at Dantzig the twenty-fixth, and brought this prince back.again to Dunkirk, November the eleventh following j circumftances not having anfwered the hopes which the Poles had made this prince conceive. While this was happening, the peace of Ryfwick was made; during this war the privateers of Dunkirk had made prizes of the collective value of twenty-two million of livres. In 1701 war broke out afrefh; Fort Blanc was conftructed. M. Bart being ordered to fit out a fquadron, applied himfelf to it with fuch aftivity, that a pleurify carried him to the grave, the twenty-feventh of April 1702, aged fifty-two years, and generally re- gretted. His fon Andrew followed the fteps of his father ; he diftinguilhed himfelf under M. de St. Pol, who commanded a fquadron in the north, and under M. de' Forbin, whofucceeded M. de St. Pol, he being killed in 1705, in an engagement in which his fquadron had the advantage. M. Bart by his fervices, reached the rank of vice- admiral. In 1712, peace being concluded, the fluices, forts, and fortifications of Dunkirk were demolilhed. During this war the Dunkirkers brought in one thoufand fix hundred prizes ; which fold for more than thirty millions of livres, exclufive of veffels carried into other ports of France. In 1714, the canal and port of Mardyck were dug, to carry off the waters of the country ; this port is half a league from Dunkirk to the weft, befide the ancient Mar- dyck. Two fluices were made to admit {hips, but in 1717 the largeft was deftroyed, and only the fmaller one of fixteen feet was preferved for letting off the water. By this canal, which ended at Dunkirk, commerce was carried on, but at a heavy expence, in fpite of the Englifh. A dam had been thrown acrofs the port, between the town and citadel, but a furious wind having driven the fea with violence againft it, it gave way fhortly before 1720, and was entirely carried away. Navigation was began upon it, and forts and jettys, in fafcinage, were conftrudled on it in 1744, and the town was furrounded with a rampart of turf; but the forts were demolifhed at the peace of 1748. After this peace, a dyke was made to carry off the water from the ditches of the town, which had become ftagnant. The laft war the fluice of Bergues was re-eftablifhed, and the bafin, and forts in {cinage were conftructed clofe to the fea; but at the peace the forts were demolilhed, the bafin, and the dyke, leaving the fluice of Bergues for carry- . ing off the water. The twenty-fourth of September, at nine intne morning, having two-thirds of flood- tide, the wind weak from the fouth, I failed from the road of Dunkirk to return to Breft, by the channel. We fleered at firft W. quarter N. W. and W. N. W., to get out of the road which terminates E. and W., with the points of Brae. A veffel is known to be weft of Brae, when the belfry de petite Sainte is in a line with the buoy of Mardyck, as well that it is eaft of Brae, when the belfry of St. Catherine is in a line with the towers of Bergues. After going out of the roads by the pafl'age of the weft, and about to make for the Straits of Dover ; you muft fleer W. N. W. and N. W. quarter W. to avoid the Snow, a bank which is dry, and which muft be left to larboard ; you muft neither fleer more N. than N. W. quarter W. for fear of falling in with the Breban, on which there is but three feet of water, in certain parts at low water; but no rifk is run in fleering W. N. W. and N. W. quarter W. You know that you are clear, that is to fay, weft of the banks, when you have the tower of St. George, which is flat, in a line with a fmall down, which looks like an ifland, or when the great tower of Gravelines bears S. quarter S. W. of the compafs. At noon on the twenty-fourth, I was in that pofition, lg ht wind ; but having the ebb for me 1 made way. The tides are twelve hours long at Dunkirk, eleven and half at Calais, and three in the middle of the 4 llrait.

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