NORTHERN RIVERS AND COAST. 



creafing in height from the north-eaft*. On the north is good anchorage in 

 twenty fathom water. The fouth fide has a rocky bottom, and for fome way to the 

 eaft and weft the fea is fhallow. At tlie northreaft end is a hollow, the haunt of 

 walrufles, and of myriads of gulls and other fea-fowls, which darken the air with 

 their numbers. 



The Dvj'ina is navigable to a great diflance, even to Wologda., a thoufand 

 verfts, or about fix hundred and fixty-fix miles by water. The ifles o^ Podefemjkoe 

 form the Delta of this great river. The city of Archangel is approachable by two 

 channels, an eaflern and a weftern, each above thirty miles in length ; their 

 depth is from three to eight fathoms. The city ftands on the banks of the eaftern 

 channel. The ifles are feparated from each other by a narrow ftrait, which divides 

 them midway, parallel to the greater channels, and is paflable by RuJJian ladies, 

 the Northern Pilot fays by larger veffels. 



As late as the year 1784, a hundred and twenty fhips failed out of the port af 

 Archangel. 



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From the North Cape the coaft oi Finland tuns eafterly : North-kyn or north- 

 point is a diftinguiflied promontory; between them are the three Jijlers, conic 

 rocks of a grotefque appearance. Yvom. xh&ncz to Tana bay is high and craggy 

 land, and a bold fhore. The river Tana falls with a prodigious noife into the 

 end of the bay, forming a noble catara£t ; like the Alien, it rifes far in Lapland, 

 and, after a long courfe through alps and morajjes, here has its difcharge. Amono- 

 the lefi^er rivers which feed it, fome were famous for beavers and pearls. The 

 Laplanders had therefore, in 1652, this river committed to their fpecial care. The 

 Tana is the mofl celebrated of any in the north for its falmon ; they are diftin- 

 guiflied by their depth, fhortnefs, and fuperior excellency. The fifliery begins 

 early in the fpring, and, by the lav/s o^Norivay, muftendin fourteen days after the 

 feaft of St. John the Eaptift. 



To the eaft of this is Wardoe, an ifland remarkable for having on it the moft: 

 northern fortrefs in the world, and of unknown antiquity, built at the extremity 

 of Norivegian Finmark. It commands a fine harbour, and probably was built to- 

 protedl the fifliing trade, the only objeft it could have in this remote place. It 

 has caufed an alTemblage of about three hundred Norwegian cottages, the habita- 

 tions of fifhermen. Beyond the adjacent promontory, Domefnefs, the fea runs 

 weftvvardj and forms a deep bay. The river Pas is the boundary between the 



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* Northern Pilot, page 59. 



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