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and many more, but the true position of this English Bay was 

 really at the SE. corner of Dutch Bay. 



Danes Is/and (Goos, 1666, and all later cartographers). — Its SW. point 

 was called Engehche Uyt Kyck by the Dutch {passim). The bay 

 in its W. coast is marked on the Cash map (1629) Port St. Pierre 

 apelle par les datwis Copenhavre baie. Its common name was 

 Robbe (Kobbe) Bay (Middelhoven, 1634), or Danes Bay (Zorg- 

 drager). The small bay in the N. coast of this island is known as 

 Pike's Bay, since Mr. Arnold Pike built a house there apparently 

 on the site of the old Kokery of Harli?igen (wrongly called 

 Haarlem by Martens), behind which was "the running water" 

 of Martens (Vars water of G. and R., 1707). 



Danes Gat. — Perhaps oftener called Middelgadt (Middelhoven, 1634), 

 by the Dutch, and frequently South Bay (Zorgdrager) with refer- 

 ence to Smeerenburg. Dodmans Eyland was at the E. end of 

 Danes Gat. Zorgdrager marks Zetje Fau in or about Danes Gat, 

 but I know not to what the name refers. 



Amsterdam Island (Blaeu, 1664). — The chief hill on this island is 

 named the Beehive (Martens). The north point, now called 

 Hakluyfs Headland, was the Kwaade or Devil's Hook of the 

 Dutch, and was probably the Collins Cape of Hudson (misprinted 

 Colnis by Hondius, 161 1). In Gerritsz this point is named Ysse 

 Caep (161 3). A small island off the point was named Devil's 

 Island (Van Keulen), or Bikorf (Zorgdrager), and near it was the 

 North Bank (Zorgdrager). On the flat SE. spit of Amsterdam 

 Island was situated Smeerenburg, with five principal tents, cook- 

 eries, or settlements, named, in order from N. to S., Amsterdam, 

 Middelburg, the Danes, Delft, and Hoorn. 



Dutch or Mauritius Bay (Joris, 1614).— The name of the chief harbour 

 in Spitsbergen, between the mainland and the Amsterdam and 

 Danes Islands. It is the Beerhaven of Commelin (1642), and the 

 South Haven of Martens. Its N. entrance was called North Gat 

 (Blaeu, 1664). In its E. coast were reckoned to be three bays 

 (Van Keulen, 1689): English or South Bay at the SE. angle; 

 Bee re Bay, farther N. ; and Slaad Bay, still farther N. Ys hoek 

 separated Beere Bay from Slaad Bay. Zorgdrager and G. and R., 

 (1707) mark a river (Zuyd Bay A'ivier), rising from a lake in the 

 mountains to the S., and flowing into English Bay. This river 

 and the minor bays seem to have been altered or filled up by 

 glacial changes and encroachments. Zorgdrager marks a Makkelky 



