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802 KERGUELEN’S VOYAGE TO THE NORTH,
could not cut him off, he arrived at Dantzig the twenty-fixth, and brought this prince
back again to Dunkirk, November the eleventh following ; circumftances not havin
anfwered the hopes which the Poles had made this prince conceive. While this was
happening, the peace of Ryfwick was made; during this war the privateers of Dunkirk
had made prizes of the collective value of twenty-two million of livres.
In 1701 war broke out afrefh ; Fort Blanc was conftru@ed. M. Bart being ordered
to fit out a fquadron, applied himfelf to it with fuch aétivity, that a pleurify carried him
to the grave, the twenty-feventh of April 1702, aged fifty-two years, and generally re-
gretted. His fon Andrew followed the fteps of his father ; he diftinguifhed himfelt
under M. de St. Pol, who commanded a fquadron in the north, and under M. de
Forbin, who fucceeded M. de St. Pol, he being killed in 1705, in an engagement in which
his fquadron had the advantage. M. Bart by his fervices, reached the rank of vice-
admiral,
In 1712, peace being concluded, the fluices, forts, and fortifications of Dunkirk were
demolifhed. During this war the Dunkirkers brought in one thoufand fix hundred
prizes ; which fold for more than thirty millions of livres, exclufive of veflels carried
into other ports of France.
In 1714, the canal and port of Mardyck were dug, to carry off the waters of the
country ; this port is half a league from Dunkirk to the weft, befide the ancient Mar-
dyck. Two fluices were made to admit fhips, but in 1717 the largeft was deftroyed,
and only the fmaller one of fixteen feet was preferved for letting off the water. By this
canal, which ended at Dunkirk, commerce was carried on, but at a heavy expence, in
fpite of the Englifh. A dam had been thrown acrofs the port, between the town and
citadel, but a furious wind haying driven the fea with violence again{t it, it gave way
fhortly before 1720, and was entirely carried away. Navigation was began upon it,
and forts and jettys, in fafcinage, were con{truéted on it in 1744, andthe town was
furrounded with a rampart of turf; but the forts were demolifhed at the peace of 1748.
After this peace, a dyke was made to carry off the water from the ditches of the town,
which had become ftagnant. ‘The laft war the fluice of Bergues was re-eftablifhed, and
the bafin, and forts in {cinage were con{truéted clofe to the fea; but at the peace the
forts were demolifhed, the bafin, and the dyke, leaving the fluice of Bergues for carry-
ing off the water.
The twenty-fourth of September, at nine in tne morning, having two-thirds of flood-
tide, the wind weak from the fouth, I failed from the road of Dunkirk to return to
Breft, by the channel. We fteered at firft W. quarter N. W. and W. N. W., to get
out of the road which terminates E, and W., with the points of Brac. A veflel is
known to be welt of Brac, when the belfry de petite Sainte is in a line with the buoy
of Mardyck, as well that it is eaft of Brac, when the belfry of St. Catherine is in a line
with the towers of Bergues. After going out of the roads by the paflage of the weft,
and about to make for the Straits of Dover; you mutt fteer W.N. W. and N. W.
quarter W. to ayoid the Snow, a bank which is dry, and which mutt be left to larboard ;
you muft neither {teer more N. than N, W. quarter W. for fear of falling in with the
Breban, on which there is but three feet of water, in certain parts at low water; but no
rifk is run in fteering W. N. W. and N. W. quarter W. You know that you are
clear, that is to fay, weft of the banks, when you have the tower of St. George, which is
flat, in a line with a {mall down, which looks like an ifland, or when the great tower of
Gravelines bears S. quarter S. W. of the compafs. At noon on the twenty-fourth, I
was in that pofition, lg ht wind; but having the ebb for me I made way. ‘The tides are
twelve hours long at Dunkirk, eleven and half at Calais, and three in the middle = the
4 rait.
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