SEP IST EZG RS BER CGSB) N, 
- This. ifland was probably difcovered by Stephen Bennet in 1673 *, employed by 
Alderman Cherie, in honor of whom the place was named. The anchorage near 
it is twenty and thirty fathoms. He found there the tooth of a Walrus, but faw 
none of the animals, their feafon here being paft: this was the 17th of Augu/t. 
Encouraged by the hopes of profit, Bennet made a fecond voyage the next year, and 
arrived at the ifland the gth of Fly; when he found the Walrufes lying huddled 
on one another, a theufand in a_ heap. For want of experience, he killed only a 
few; but in fucceeding voyages the adventurers killed, in 1626, in fix hours time, 
feven or eight hundred ; in 1608, nine hundred or a thoufand in feven hours ; and 
in 1610, above feven hundred. The profit, in the teeth, oil, and fkins, was very 
confiderable + ; but the flaughter made among the animals frightened the furvivors 
away, fo that the benefit of the bufinefs was loft, and the ifland no more frequented. 
But from this deficiency originated the commencement of the Whale-fifhery by the 
Englifp. 
It is remarkable that this ifland produces excellent coals {; yet none are known 
nearer than the diocefe of Aggerhuys, in the fouth of Norway, and there in very 
fmall quantities. Lead ore is alfo found, both in Cherie Ifand and a little one 
adjacent, called Gull Iffand |. 
About a hundred and fifty miles almoft due north, is South Cape, north lat. 
76. 30, the extreme fouthern point of Spitzbergen, the largeft of the group of 
frozen ifiands which go under that name, or New Groenland. From this to Ver- 
legan-hook, north lat. 80. 7, the northern extremity, is above three hundred miles ; 
and the greateft breadth of. the group is from Hackluyt’s Headland to the extreme 
eaft point of North Eafiland, comprizing from g. to near 24. eaft longitude. 
The fhores are ragged and indented. A very deep bay runs into the eaft fide from 
fouth to north; and a large trifurcated one from north to fouth. Stat’s Forland is 
a large ifland rent from the fouthern part of the eaft fide. North Ea/tland is 
divided from the north-eaft fide by the Waygat and Hinlopen ftraits, ufually 
blocked up with ice, and fo fhallow as to be, in one part, only three fathoms deep §. 
The long ifle of King Charles lies parallel tothe weft fide. At the fouthern end is 
Black Point; thecoaft high, black, and inacceffible; in parts feeming foaring above 
the clouds ; and the interjacent vallies filled with ice and fnow. Fair Foreland, 
or Vogel-hook, is the northern headland, made by failors, And due north of it, at 
the weftern point of Spitzbergen, is the {mall lofty ifle of Hackluyt’s Headland, ano~ 
ther object of the mariners fearch. 
Tothe north of the great group is Aoffen’s [fle, in lat. 80, oppofite to the 
mouth of Leifde bay, This ifland is very low, and fufpected to be a new creation, 
* Purchas, iii. 566. + The fame, pp. 560. 565. t The fame, 564. 
f] The fame, 553. 564. § Barrington’s Mifcel. 35. a 
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WaALRUSES, 
Coats. 
LEAD. 
SPITZBERGEN, 
Morren’s Isre. 
