34 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. ICog'ar Point — these soundings average about 30 fathoms, principally sand and shells. We anchored off Djupivogr factory the same day, and it being Sunday, we ceased opera- tions during the afternoon. The weather that day was the finest we had had since we left England, and the evening was truly summer-like. During the following five days, and when not prevented by the prevalent rain and fogs, we proceeded with the examination of the fiord, and finding it would not be advisable to carry a cable into the small harbour of Djupivogr, on account of many rocks in its vicinity and its being the anchorage of the small vessels frequenting the coast, we sought for a more suitable landing-place higher up the fiord, and succeeded in finding an excellent bay, called Gautavik, on the north shore, five miles from the entrance. A depth of near thirty fathoms can be carried in from sea to within a quarter of a mile of the shore, while the bay itself afforded good protection and anchorage for any large ships that might be employed in the undertaking. High water at Djupivogr at three o’clock, full and change, rise six feet. The tide has been known to rise six and a-lialf feet before the coming of easterly gales; about the same time flood outside runs S.S.W. (true), ebb N.N.E., between Papey Island and the main. The strongest known stream has four knots, but the average in ordinary spring tides is not more than two and a-half knots. In 1860 drift ice appeared off the coast and entered the fiord, and again (though in very small quantities) in 1859-60. This ice, called here Greenland ice, is the ordinary washed and de- cayed floe-ice, and comes from the N.W. No icebergs have ever been seen on the coast. The drift-ice appears with northerly and departs with southerly winds, and less of it comes into Berufiord than any other fiord on the east coast of Iceland; the residents accounting for this fact by Berufiord having a

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