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KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH. 793
Lat. Long. E. from Paris. Fathoms.
54 7’ 0 41 large fand and {mall pebbles - 28
53 54 o 40 fame bottom - - 24
53 50 o 40 muddy fand - - st
53 47 °o 39 fame - - - 22
534-35 o 32 fame - - : 20
3.17 o 23 fine red fand mixed with black - 18
530 FO o 21 the fame - - - 25
SF ineF o 21. the fame - ° - 20
g3ut 5 o 20 fine white fand (white bank) - 17
$3, .ni0 o 18 the fame - - - 22,
52 46 o 15. fine grey fand - - 28 ’
5a: 26 o 46 red and grey fand - - 25
52 14 o 47 fame bottom - - yy)
22 10 o 40 fine fand - - - 19
51 50 o 28 fand and fmall gravel . 29
The variation of the needle 19°.
Itraverfed the Dogger-bank, and the banks fouth of this firft, taking foundings
every hour, of which the table is annexed. Veflels which are pafling over the Dog-
ger-bank fhould take the middle of it as much as poflible, for on the eaftern fide the
currents are violent, and run to the Categat; and on the weitern fide there is no
more than eight or nine fathoms water, which occafions furges fo much the more dan-
gerous, as. the bottom is large gravel and fmall pebbles. South of the middle of the
Dogger-bank there is twenty-five to thirty fathoms water, muddy bottom. “Ten leagues
fouth of the middle of the Dogger-bank is the white water ; the bottom is of white fand,
and there is fixteen or feventeen fathoms water. Five leagues eaft of this bank the
Well-bank is met with, the bottom of which is of ftone; there are eighteen fathoms
water on it. Weft of this bank the bottom, which is a yellow fand and black gravel,
increafes to twenty-two fathoms. A little lower down are the Lemon-banks, very dan-
gerous; on thefe there is no more than one’ fathom at low water. Many veffels are
annually loft there. The middle of Lemon is about feven leagues N. N. E. of Yar-
mouth. ‘The banks of Yarmouth alfo are to be guarded againft. By all that I have
obferved, it muft be evident that the weft fide of the Dogger-bank is very dangerous.
Incalms, fhips anchor onthe Dogger-bank to wait for wind and tide. ‘The fifhing vef-
fels of Dunkirk, decked boats of thirty-five tons, anchor there in all weathers; they pay
out three hundred fathoms of cable, and meet frequently dreadful gales of wind while
atanchor. By accident fometimes a veflel is loft in this manner: the veffels on tacking
fall foul of their cable, and on the after-tack run again upon, when, fhould the cable pafs
under the keel, the veffel is fometimes overfet.
The twenty-eighth of Auguft, at three o’clock in the morning, having founded and
found twenty-four fathoms water, with fandy bottom, and being within the firft of the Fle-
mifh banks, I caft out a fmall anchor to wait for the tide. At fix o’clock the wind blew
frefh from the E.S. E. I fet fail and fteered S.S.W. At nine o’clock I faw the towers
of Oftend, which bore S. quarter S. W., five leagues diftant. I continued running
5.5. W., on account of the flood running f{trongly to the eaft. At noon the towers »
bore fouth, two-thirds of a league from me. I fired three guns to caule pilots to come
on board, who were remifs ; and at half paft noon I entered between the jettics. The
tide began to ebb from the port, which made me run the hazard of being driven ona
VOL. Il. Sat bank
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