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JOURNAL. 



July. Sang, and anchored with the beft bower in eleven fathom, 

 foft clay. 



The place v/here we anchored is a good road-ftead, 

 open from the N E to the N W. The Northeafternmoft 

 point is the Cloven CHff, a bare rock fo called from the 

 top of it refembling a cloven hoof, which appearance it 

 has always worn, having been named by fome of the firft 

 Dutch navigators who frequented thefe feas. This rock 

 being entirely detached from the other mountains, and 

 joined to the reft of the ifland by a low narrow ifthmus^ 

 preferves in all fituations the fame form ; and being nearly 

 perpendicular, it is never difguifed by fnow. Thefe circum- 

 Itances render it one of the moft remarkable points on the 

 coaft. The Northwefternmoft land is an high bluff point, 

 called by the Dutch, Vogel Sang. This found, though open 

 to the Northward, is not liable to any inconvenience from 

 that circumftance, the main body of the ice lying fo near as 

 to prevent any great lea ; nor are Ihips in any danger from 

 the loofe ice fetting in, as this road communicates with 

 feveral others formed by different iflands, between all 

 which there are fafe paffages. To all the founds and 

 harbours formed by this knot of iflands, the old Engliili 

 na\'igators had given the general name of Fair Haven ; of 

 Vv^hich Fotherby took -^ flat in 1614: that in which the 

 Racehorfe and Carcafs lay at this time they called the 

 North Harbour ; the harbour of Smeerenberg, diftant about 

 eleven miles, (in which we anchored in Augull) they named 



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