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56 KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
The refemblance of the bottom which I found with that of the environs of the rock,
feems to confirm the exiftence of it.
Before leaving Iceland, it is right I fhould impart to the reader the knowledge I was
enabled to acquire of the ports fituated weft and north of the ifland. I fhall begin with
Adelfiord, north of Lufbaye, and fhall continue the fame to the point of Langernefs.
Adelfiord, or the bay which bears that name, is very extenfive and deep, but the an-
chorage is bad for large veffels, as the coaft is rugged, and it is neceflary to anchor
clofe to the fhore. ‘The fithing veffels lying at anchor have the poop fo near the
land, that the failors go on fhore by means of a plank laid from the fhip’s fide.
The bay of Direfiord is as fine and as large as that of Lufbaye; there is no danger
in entering it, care being taken of the fqualls of wind which come from the gorges, as I
before mentioned in {peaking of Patrixfiord. ‘The anchorage is good every where for
veflels of war. Atthe bottom of the bay are two points in the fhape of a fugar-loaf,
which at fea are taken for two pyramidal iflands, and which mark the bay of Direfiord
on coming from fea. 2
The bay of Weft Norderfiord isas extenfive as the preceding ; there is good anchor-
age in the firft inlet to larboard on entering, but it is fuitable to thofe veffels only which
mean to fail again dire€tly, for fhelter it is better to proceed higher up. In the middle
of the bay there is twenty five fathoms water ; but at the extremity the anchorage is in
fixteen to eighteen fathoms, with good bottom: there are rocks both on the larboard
and ftarboard quarter on entering, but they are all above water.
The bay of Pikhol is too open, it is fit only for fifhing veflels or corvettes, the an-
chorage is clofe to the minifter’s houfe, where there is fhelter under the north point.
The bay of Bolk-Bogt is more properly a gulph than a bay; it is little known.
The fifhermen feldom proceed up it ; notwith{tanding an owner or matter told me, that
he had once failed to the bottom of the bay, and that behind a point of land which pro-
je€ts, he found moft excellent anchorage below the houfe of the factor of the com-
pany. He even faid, if ke were obliged to winter in Iceland, he fhould prefer this {pot
to any.
The roads of Seertel Bay are very fine, there is excellent anchorage for all fhipping :
a fhip may anchor to ftarboard on entering after doubling a point, but the beft anchor-
age is at the foot of a remarkable cliff at the bottom of the Roadited. Thefe roads are
diftinguifhable by a hill of grey fand, perceptible at a great diftance.
In the bay of Radkol there is anchorage in twelve fathoms water, with a fandy bot-
tom. ‘There is fhelter from the wind on the fouth and the eaft, but with a N. or W.
wind a veflel would be much expofed.
The roads of Rakbaye are very large and very good ; fifty veflels of war might eafily
anchor in them; the beft place for cafting anchor is at the extremity of the bay, on the
fouth fide, half a league from fhore. Drift wood is met with here, caft on fhore by
the fea.
In going out of Rakbaye the North Cape is onthe ftarboard quarter. Eaftward of
the North Cape, on the fide of the gulph of Orgel Bokt, there is a cafcade or river,.
which falls in large volumes of foam, and with a confiderable noife ;. it is a land’s mark
on the coaft. This cafcade or river is called. Watalope.
In the whole of the gulph of Orgel Bogt, there is only the bay of eaft Nordefiord,
where a frigate can take refuge; its anchorage is to ftarboard on entering, two cables’
length from the cabins of the Icelanders. ‘he fifhermen go for anchorage to the bot-
tom of the bay; but they muft pafs a bar, over which at low water there is only
iwelve feet depth. The fea throws wood on fhore here alfo ; a river empties itfelf po
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