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KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH. 977
Kolhom is a bay which has good anchorage, but the entrance is difficult; you have
to pafs to the fouth of an ifland called Schorres, which is before the bay, becaufe in the
north part there isa reef which extends very far, and renders the paflage to the north
of this ifland almoft impraéticable.
Papei-fiord is an open road to which the ifland Papei, which lays at the entrance, has
given name. ?
Preifter-bay, and Ingelse-bay, are two other roads; this laft is fo denominated from
its being much frequented by the Englifh: on the parallel of thefe two bays, fix or
eight leagues out at fea, there isa large flat rock called Walfboc, looking like the back
of awhale. As fifhermen have informed me that there are dreadful currents, and ter-
rible eddies between this rock and the land; I am given to think there may be a chain
under water, extending from this rock to the fhore ; and that there would be danger in
pafling between: notwithftanding fifhing veffels have frequently pafled. May itnot
alfo be conceived that Enkeuyfen, which is placed under the fame parallel, is no other
than the ifland or rock Walfboc, feen through a fog by fifhermen who could not dif-
tinguifh the land, and who were ignorant of the diftance they were away from it.
This isthe more probable in fo much as the greater part of the mafters can neither
read nor write, and are not qualified to make a good obfervation.
The iflands of Ferro are fituated in the North Sea, between 61° and 63” of latitude,
and between 8° and 10° of longitude weft of Paris. The exact time when thefe iflands
were difcovered is not known, but it is known that under Harold Haorfager king of
Norway, they were inhabited and frequented by foreigners. ‘Towards the eleventh
century the chriftian religion was preached here. Chriftian III. having introduced the
reformation into his ftates, governed the ifles of Ferro by a provoft, who depends on the
bifhop of Zealand, and has feven priefts under his dire€tion, who do duty in forty
churches, Thefe iflands are under the bailiwick of Iceland. They have befides a
provincial judge, a fenefchal, two fubaltern magiftates, and a receiver general for the
king’s lands, who is as well the dire¢tor of the commerce of thefe iflands with Copen-
hagen. ‘The trade is carried on for the king’s account, by the chamber of finances.
Thefe iflands are twenty-five in number, feventeen of which are inhabited and cultivated.
They are divided into fix parifhes: 1. Norderoe, which comprizes the following ifles
and churches. Videroe, called on the Neptune Vidro. Fulgloe, or Fuloe, two Danith
miles in circumference. Suinoe, of thefame fize. Bordoe, which has a good port in
the N. W. Canoe, three miles in circumference ; and Calloe or Kalfoe, of the fame ex-
tent. 2, Oftroe, eighteen miles in circumference; it has feven churches, and
two ports, called Fugle-fiord,and Kons gaven: this laft port is in the gulph of Skaale.
3. Stromoe, this ifland is twenty miles in circumference. It is divided into two
parts; the northern, which comprehends the principal church of Kolde-fiord, and
the ports of Wertmanhan and Halderfviig: and the fouthern, which comprifes the town
of Thorfhan, which has a commodious’ port defended by a redoubt. It is the principal
place of all the iflands, and the only one where there is a market; the fenefchal, and the
dire€tor of trade, refide there. There is generally a hundred menin garrifon. King
Chriftian III. eftablifhed a college here, which was perfected by Chriftian lV. M.
Thurot came in here to refit in the laft war, commander of the privateer called the
Marihal Bellifle, being entirely difmafted for the third time. 4. Waagoe, this
ifland is fix miles in circumference. Its principal church is near the port of Mid-
vaag. ‘his ifland has befides another port called Sorvaag, which as well as the for-
mer isin the fouth part of theifland. Waagoe is that ifland, which on the Neptune
is marked Wage. 5. Sandoe, this ifland is eight miles in circumference, ‘There
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