57 
April 3d. Having got eight men at 
Balti Sound, we weighed anchor at ten 
A. M. and sailed out of the north en¬ 
trance with a fine south-west breeze. 
For some days we had fine clear frosty 
weather, during which time no particu¬ 
lar occurrence took place. 
On the 12th, at four P. M. we saw the 
long narrow island of Jan Mayen, (so 
called from the name of its discoverer,) 
bearing north-east, and distant about ten 
leagues. It lies in about 71° N. Lat. 
and 8° 15' E. Long, from Ferro. Vid. 
Forster’s Hist. Voy. to the North , p. 422. 
This island was once, in honour of 
Prince Maurice of Nassau, called Mauri¬ 
tius Island in Greenland, to distinguish it 
from Mauritius Island on the N.W. point 
of Spitzbergen. It stretches from N. E. 
to S. W. The north end rises into a 
high mountain called Beerenberg, from 
its being haunted by bears ; though its 
steepness renders it inaccessible to man. 
