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792 KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
that I fpoke told me there was nothing new in the fleet. We had feven or eight days of
fine weather, which I employed in founding and taking bearings.
The tenth of Augutt, feeing the appearance of bad weather, I got off the coatt.
The twelfth and thirteenth, we had a gale of wind from the S. W., witha terrible fea.
We brought-to with the ftay-fails fet, and in this attitude my veflel bore very well.
From the thirteenth the wind was continually changing, with foggy weather ; at length,
on the nineteenth, feeing the weather did not clear up, and that the feafon was advanced,
I run for the Shetland iflands.
The twenty-fourth, being by log fifteen leagues E. N. E. of Boquenefs, I founded and
found fixty fathoms water, muddy bottom. I continued my courfe four leagues, on
the W. N. W. tack, and found, on founding, feventy fathoms water, with a muddy fand.
I purfued my way under the fame breeze, and confidered myfelf four leagues eaft of the
middle of cape Boquenefs; I did not perceive it; I founded and found fifty fathoms
water, bottom fine fand mixed with mud: I then fteered S. quarter S. E. to fall in with
the Dogger-bank, with a very frefh breeze from the north, asthe horizon was clear,
and cape Boquenefs very high, and as I had fpoken to feveral herring-fifhers, who told
ame they were twelve leagues from land, I am furprifed at not having feen Boquenefs, and
I thence conceive it to be more north than is marked in the French chart, This chart
places it in lat. 57° 32’, but the Dutch charts place it in lat. 57° 58’. At the point of
Boquenefs is a {mall bank, which the Dutch call Vatterburg, which fignifies rat’s-tail,
on account ofits figure. On this bank there is at low water three fathoms water ; there is
a paflage a’league wide between the bank and the fhore. South of Boquenefs an ifland is
perceived, and feveral rocks, and near them there is anchorage in ten fathoms water, fhel-
tered from all winds from the north. The currents run fouth along all thefe coafts.
The twenty-fixth, at noon, I took the foundings on the Dogger-bank, and from that
inftant I did not ceafe heaving the lead till I reached the banks of Oftend. As the detail
of the different courfes I took in founding would be tedious, I fhall only defcribe the
founding, and the points of latitude and longitude.
TABLE OF SOUNDINGS FROM THE NORTH-WEST EXTREMITY OF THE DOGGER-
BANK TO THE BANKS OF OSTEND.
Lat. Long. W. from Paris. Fathoms.
ss oy o 59 grey fand with black fpots - 26
gk Tg o 55 fame bottom - - 21
54 59 o 52 fame - - 5 20
54 56 o so flint and {mall ftones - 18
54 53 © 47 ditto - - + 14
54 50 © 39 ditto - E b 15
54 53 o 34 ditto - « 5 18
54 54 © 19 ditto - - s 18
54 48 o 21 ditto - - . 18
54 44 o 14. ditto . - : 17
54. 39 o 7. ditto : : F 15
54 35 E. 2. ditto - . 15
54 33 o 6 fine fand and fhells C é 14
54 31 o 9g fine fand ~ » b 12
54 30 o 18 fame, extremity of Dogger-bank 18
54 20 © 33 fine white fand and fhells - 26
54 7!
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