They sailed by the place called the Scares, that is, the isles of rocks, which are there in the water and on both sides of the shore, of a strange Cragginess, largeness, and number; those in the sea are full of danger, and often afford but a very strait passage for the ships to go between them, and no other course is to avoid them.
"A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II."
Bulstrode Whitelocke