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Yate. They place this island in latitude 71° to 

 71° 23', and longitude (corrected to Greenwich) 

 5° 55' to 7° 22' W. * ; and our charts place it about 

 the same latitude, and in the longitude of 9° to 10° 

 or 11° W. From a survey, however, of the east 

 coast, which I accomplished on the 3d and 4th of 

 August 1817, and from solar observations for lati- 

 tude and longitude (by chronometer), I found its 

 limits to be between the latitudes of 70° 49' and 

 71° 8' 20'' N., and between the longitudes of 7° 26' 

 and 8" 44' W f . 



This island, which extends in length about ten 

 leagues, from N. E. to S. AV., is in no place above 

 three leagues in breadth. The northern extremity 

 is of a rhomboidal form, each side being about three 

 leagues in length, and affords a base for the remark- 

 able peak called Beercnberg, or Bear JNlountain. 

 The southern extremity, connected by a narrow 

 isthmus to one of the acute angles of the northern 

 land, is from 1^ to about 5 miles in breadth. 



The coast affords several road-steads, with good 

 anchorage in five to ten fathoms water, black sandy 

 ground, but no harbour for a ship ; all the ancho- 

 rages being open to the sea in an angle of at least 

 ten points of the compass. Few dangers occur on 



* Beschryving der Walvisvangst, Map, vol. ii. p. G-i. 



+ The positions of several remarkable parts of the coast, are 

 included in the Table of Latitudes and Longitudes, Appendix, 

 No. IV. 



