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a greater number of bays or harbours than any of 

 the rest. .Vfter the English, the Dutch, Danes, 

 Hamburgh ers and Biscayans, each in succession, 

 made a selection, in the order of their arrival on, or 

 their suj>posed claim to the fishery. 



The En2:lish chose for themselves some of the 

 principal southern bays, most free from ice, consist- 

 ing of Bell Sound, Preservation or Safe Harbour 

 in Ice Sound, and Horizon Bay, the whole situated 

 on the south of the Foreland ; together with a small 

 bay beliind tlie northern part of the Foreland, which 

 they called English Harbour, and another more re- 

 mote which still bears tlie name of English or Mag- 

 dalena Bay *. 



The Hollanders, obliged to take up their quarters 

 farther to the northward, chose the Island of Am- 

 sterdam, with two bays adjoining, one on each side; 

 and a third, which they called Hollander's Bay, 

 formed between the island and the main. 



The Danes, who followed next after the Holland- 

 ers, contenting themselves witli more circumscribed 

 possessions, established themselves between the Eng- 

 lish and the Dutch. Their principal place of re- 

 sort they called Danes Island and Danes Bay. 



When the Hamburghers resorted to the fishery, 

 they discovered a small bay to the northward of the 

 Foreland, situated near the Seven Ice Bergs, which 



* Histoire des Pcches, torn. i. p. I3, 



