Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Pages ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
780 KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
isa ridge of rocks about it. There is alfo a good paffage to it between the iflands of
Soult-Ronalza, and Burra, but it is very narrow. It is dangerous to attempt it, unlefs
with a fure and favourable wind. South of Pomona the tide runs §.E. at new and
full, and the difference of high and low water, is twelve feet.
The port of Durfound is on the N. E. of Pomona, within Mull-head, the moft eaftern.
point, and a league from the W. of the point. Mull-head is a very high and diftin-
cuifhable land ; it is befides healthy and rugged. ‘There are two rocks to the E., and
two others to the N. N. W., but they are very nigh the fhore. The entrance of the port
of Durfound is nearly a mile wide ; the middle muft be taken on account of fome rocks
under water clofe to land, particularly towards the point to larboard of the entrance.
After doubling this point you enter the port, where there is anchorage every where ;
but to be beft fheltered vetfels lay weft of the point of Neftin, which is that of the ftar-
board on entering, where you anchor in five fathoms water. Small veffels go to the
fouth of Durfound, into a creek called Market-bay, where they anchor in three fathoms.
Care muft be taken refpecting the height of tide on entering this creek; for in the
middle of it there is a bank on which there is no more than five feet depth at low water.
Neap and fpring-tides rife twelve feet at Durfound, ordinary tides but eight feet.
The port of Kirk-all is north of Pomona ; to get at it by the eaft you muft take the
paflage of Stronfafirth, fouth of the ifland Stronfa, and north of Mull-head. You mutt
near the cape, pafs before Durfound, between the north of Pomona and the fouth of the
ifle of Schapinfha, leaving the ifland called Elgarholm to ftarboard, and that of ‘Thievef-
holm to larboard. As foon as you have pafled the latter ifland fteer S.S. W., to avoid
a rock a mile to the N. W. of Thievefholm, on which there is but fix feet at low water.
Afterwards fteer S. quarter S. W., to enter the road of Kirkwall, where you anchor in
fix or eight fathoms water. You may get nearer the town at the bottom of the bay ;
there is better fhelter, but it is not fo eligible a ftation to fail from. There is excellent
anchorage a league and a half to the weft of Kirkwall, called Monoo’s Bay : but as
there are rocks to ftarboard and larboard on entering, the middle of the channel muft be
kept: it would even be a prudent precaution to take a practifed pilot of the place on
board; they are always to be found.
The ifland Roufa is north of Pomona ; it is of fmall extent, but the lands are very
high. Between Roufa and Pomona the currents are very violent.
Eaft of Roufa is the anchorage called Wire-found : to enter it, coming from the eatt,
you mutt pafs through Stronfafirth ; but inftead of keeping to the fouth of Shapinfha,
you mutt keep to the north, having the iflands Warms and Grain to ftarboard, after
which you fteer W. S. W., to have the ifland of Egilfha, and thofe of Wire and Roufa,
to larboard : it is between Roufa and Egilfha that the anchorage of Wire-found isin fix
or feven fathoms water, ‘The entrance of this anchorage is without danger; all that
is neceflary is to avoid certain rocks which extend a mile from fhore to the fouth of
Egilfha : to clear them it is requifite to keep half a league from the point, and to keep
clofe to the ifleof Wire, which has given name to the Sound. ‘To anchor well in Wire-
found, you mutt keep St. Agnes church in the ifle of Egilfha at N. E.and by E. The
tide does not run ftrong in this road, which is greatly frequented: by fifhermen, who
refort to Iceland. You may get out of Wire-found by a fimall paflage north of the an-
chorage, between the ifland of Roufa and the iflet of Stocknefs. _In this paflage there
are four fathoms water, but it is very narrow. On leaving this pafs you enter Weftra-
firth, or the ftrait of Weftra: the currents are very violent, particularly at high tides.
On going through the canal, attention mutt be paid to keeping clofe to Roufa, becaufe
towards the middle of it, S. W. of Weftra, there are very dangerous rocks under water.
When defixous of leaving Wire-found towards the weft, keeping the ifles of Wire and
2 Pomona
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
