INDEX. 



565 



Exeter Sound, discovered by Davis, i. 

 76 



Expences of a whale-ship, ii. 393 — Of 

 extracting oil, ii. 396 



Experiments for determining the rela- 

 tion between weight and measure in 

 whale-oil, ii. 525 



Fall, the alarm of a whale ^eing har- 

 pooned, ii. 243 



Fast-fish, what constitutes a, ii. 319 



Fenks, derived from blubber, ii. 402 

 — Uses of, ii. 434 



Fields, fishery among, ii. 259. See 

 Ice. 



Fin-whale, first attacked by Europeans, 

 ii. 16 



Fishburn Cape, Jan Mayen, named, i. 

 166 



Fleming, Rev. Dr, his description of 

 the narwal, good, i. 495 



Flensing, process of, how conducted, 

 ii. 298 



F"lustra pilosa, notice of, i. 551 



Fog, frequent in polar seas, i. 440 — 

 Not always wetting, i. 441 — Incon- 

 veniences of, i. 442 — Method of ob- 

 taining the sun's altitvide during, i. 

 443 — Of fishing during, ii. 273— 

 Dangers of, to the whalers, ii. 348 



Fog-bow, description of, i. 3-94 



Foreland, description of mountains on, 

 i. 97 



Formulje for finding temperature, i. 

 353, (53) 



Fortifying of Greenland ships, manner 

 of, ii. 191, 508 



Fox, Arctic, remarks on, i. 517 



French, ancient whale-fishers, ii. 11 — 

 Historical account of their whale- 

 fishery, ii. 163 

 Fringilla linaria, remarks on, i. 537 

 Frobisher's Strait discovered, i. 75 

 Frost-rime, description of, i. 434— 



Cause of, i. 435 

 Fulmar, account of, i. 528 



Gadus carbon:irius, notice of, i. 540 



Gale, action by, respecting a whale, ii. 

 518 



Gama, Vasquez de, first sailed to In- 

 dia, i. 2 



Gammants arcticus, description of, i. 

 541 



Gas, from oil casks, nature of, ii. 305 



Gas, from whale-oil, account of, ii. 

 421 — Superiority over that obtained 

 from coal, ii. 424 — Properties of, ii. 

 425 — Economy of, ii. 426 



Gas-lamp, portable one described, ii. 

 428 



Germans, whale-fishery by, ii. 166 



Glue, made from whales tail, ii. 434 



God's Mercy, Cape of, discovered by 

 Davis, i. 76 



Gold and treasure, the discover}' of, 

 was the secret design of some of the 

 voyages towards the north-west, i. 

 16 



Greenland, discovered by an Iceland 

 colonist, i. 63 — Colonized from Ice- 

 land, ib — Extensive settlements, i. 

 66 — Intercourse between this coun- 

 try and the rest of the world inter- 

 cepted, i. 262 — Various unsuccess- 

 ful attempts made by the Danes for 

 the recovery of this country, i. 67 



Greenland, East, or Spitzbergen, i. 93 



Greenland Company established at Lon- 

 don, ii. 59 — Lose 82,000/. in the 

 whale-fishery, ii. 60 — Cause of their 

 failure, ii. 62 



Greenland Company of Bergen esta- 

 blished, ii. 65 — Revived, ii. 72 



Greenland fishery. See Whale-fishery. 



Greenland Sea, situation of, i. 1 72. See 

 Sea. 



Gulf-stream, course of, i. 206 



Gull Island, produces lead-glance, i. 

 153 



Gulls, account of, i. 534 



Hail, uncommon in high latitudes, i. 

 422 



Hakluyt's Island discovered, i. 88 



Hamburgh, extensive fishery from, ii, 

 168 



Harpoon, description of, ii. 223 — 

 Mode of preparing for use, ii. 230 



Harpoon guns, invented, ii. 70 — Re- 

 introduced, ii. 79 — History of, ii. 

 227 — Description of, ii. 228— Pre- 

 miums for shooting whales, ib. 



Harpooners, the Biscayans, engaged as, 

 by the English and Dutch, ii. 20, 

 26, 39 — Nature of their office, iu 

 234, 



Heinson's, Morgens, ship said to have 

 been stopped by concealed magnetic 



