Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. 775 marks of Iceland be very high, you mufl be near to them to fee them, owing to their fummits being covered with fnow, and loft in fogs frequently, as I have (I believe) be- fore obferved. I founded on taking the bearing before defcribed, and met with one hundred and five fathoms water, with a muddy bottom. I obferved with care the fame day the variation of the needle, which I found to be 290. I was then within fight of land, in 67° degrees of latitude. The nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-firft, the wind variable, fometimes weak,, at others violent. I bore under various gales to obferve the bearings of the land, and look for the French fifhing veffels, which ufually are widely difperfed. The twenty-fecond, at three o’clock in the morning, the wind E., the Iky ferene ; I bore to the north as far as 69° of latitude. I then applied to myfelf the lines of Virgil Hie vertex nobis temper fublimis; at ilium Sub pedibus Itix atra vidat, manefque profundi Maximus hie flexu finuofo dubitur anguis Circum, perque duas in morem fluminis arctos Arftos,'oceani metuentes equore tingi. Lib. I. Georg. The fog thickening, and the wind changing to the fouth, I made a tack to S. S. W.,, for fear of being furrounded by the ice, owing to the fog and currents. Towards ten at night the wind became violent, neverthelefs I carried the two lower fails. In the night the tack and falfe tack of the main-fail gave way, the fmall ftay-fail was carried away ; at the fame time a furge ftruck the prow violently, and knocked off one of the bumpkins. The twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth, it blew N. and N. E. a gentle gale, with a fine fea, but continually a thick fog. 1 fleered S. under eafy fail, and founding every two hours. This precaution was neceffary, for as we had foggy weather for feveral days, and the Dutch charts notice that the currents run weft at the north of Langernefs, I might very eafily have encountered the fhore ; but after founding from time to time, I found I had nothing to fear in fleering to the fouth, as there are forty fathoms water four leagues from fhore to the north of Langernefs. The twenty-fixth we had a frefh breeze from the N. W., and fine weather; I ob- ferved and found the latitude 65° 57'. In the evening I fpoke with feveral French and Dutch fifhermen, and faw two corvettes from Dunkirk, which w-ere leaving the fifhery and returning to France. The twenty-feventh, twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth, the wind changeable, rounding the compafs, the heavens overclouded, and fog at intervals. As all the fifhing veffels are accuftomed to leave the fifhery between the twenty-fifth and thirtieth of Auguft, I made ready for my return as well to Breft, the more willingly from the continual reign of foggy weather, and the inceffant bad weather, which put it out of my power to be of any fervice. Thefe latter days were occupied in my feeking the ifland Enkhuyfen. I got into its latitude, and bore on different tacks, E. and W., in order to fall in with it, but in vain. In the night of the twenty-eight we were under fome uneafinefs : it was very dark, and perfeftly calm: the officer on watch came to wake and tell me that they heard an unufual noife. I immediately went upon deck, and effectively heard founds like thofe made by the fea on breaking over rocks. I immediately hove the lead, and payed out one hundred fathoms without finding a bottom.. Neverthelefs the noife con- tinued about a quarter of an hour, after which we heard no more of it. I imagine the noife to have been occafioned by a fwarm of fifh about the frigate; and confider that there is room for believing that Enkeuyfen ifland is no longer in exiftence, fince of five hundred

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