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again, near Vogel Hoek, to i8 kilometres. The fairwa}' was sounded out 

 by the Farm on July 20 and 21, and August 5 and 11, 1909. 



The common approach to Foreland Sound, Kings Bay and Cross Ba}' 

 was for some time called Whales Bay by the early whalers, a name that 

 had really been given by Hudson, in 1607, to the present Kings Bay. 

 From this common approach, Cross Bay runs up towards the north-east, 

 Kings Bay in an east-south-easterly, and Foreland Sound in a south-easterly 

 direction. The direction of the last-named, from its northern entrance to 

 the south end of Forlandsflakket, is south-cast, beyond which it turns in 

 a southerly direction towards the Reef 



In the northern part of the sound there are two indentations, English 

 Bay on the east side, and Richard Lagoon, with the bay outside it, on 

 the west side. 



English Bav has a direction west-north-west and east-south-east, is 

 2 kilometres long and about 3 kilometres wide at its mouth. It terminates 

 in the perpendicular wall of Comfortless Glacier. Inside the bay the depths 

 are about 60 metres, in the middle of the entrance more than 90 metres. 

 Thus English Bay is not properly speaking a fjord. There is anchorage 

 on its north side, south and west of the lagoon, in depths of up to 30 

 metres. On the south side, off Cape Graarud, the depth is about 20 metres, 

 and thence southwards as far as the Reef, only depths of up to 12 metres 

 are found for a distance of 5 kilometres from land. 



Richard Lagoon is about 8 kilometres in length and nearly i^/o in 

 width, with depths of about 2 metres. The lagoon is separated from the 

 sea by a barrier of stones the size of a man's fist and smaller, raised 

 only about 3 metres above the surface of the water at low-tide. The 

 lagoon is slightly curved, with its concave side turned towards the sea. 

 In the middle of the above-mentioned barrier, the tidal stream rushes in 

 and out with such violence that it is difficult to pass through the opening 

 in a boat, except at low or high water, between which the difference in level 

 may be as much as 1Y2 metre. The shore-line of the lagoon is more 

 irregular than the coast-line outside. Almost opposite the opening to the 

 lagoon, near its west side, lies Richard Island. 



The lagoon is bounded on the south and west by an abrasion-plain 

 which has its -greatest extension to the north of the lagoon, namely a 

 width from east to west of up to 4 kilometres, narrowing northwards 

 to Vogel Hoek through a distance of about 13 kilometres. 



This plain, which at its highest is only 30 metres above sea-level, 

 is continued eastwards in the sea in Foreland Shoal, which has even 

 depths of from 20 to 30 metres. The greatest depths between the 



