220 M E M O I R S of the 
had been tired in their flight, and lb drowned 3 this happens 
frequently in the great ocean, where they meet with no land 
for ieveral hundred leagues. ~/^u^,. ;o, in the afternoon, we 
weathered the weftermoft ifle of the ^urlings^ on the grcateft 
of which, the Tortugneze have built a fort, to hinder the 
Sarbary pyrates from careening their fliips there, or taking 
in fre/h water , for two nights together, the il<y being very hazy, 
the lun let in with a colour as deep as blood, which was very 
aftonifhing. Sept. i, in the morning, we made cape St. Pin cent ^ 
all along the coalls, at the diftance <)f about two or three leagues, 
are ieveral watch-towers built, to give notice of pyrates. Sept. 5, 
in the morning, we weathered the point of Cadiz, and came to an 
anchor in the bay of Sidls^ about half a league from the great 
(PorgoSy and in the afternoon we went aAiore, where we were 
entertained ly the Efiglip conful, and carried by him to view 
the fortifications, which are efteemed to be as regular as any in 
Chrillendom, and built in the fame place where the town had 
been attacked formerly by the BngUJlj^ under the condu61 of the 
earl of ^^x, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Sep. 11, we 
came to an anchor in Tangier bay. T'anper lies within the 
entrance into the StreigJjts, in the Lat. of 55° 96'^ it is fituated 
in the bottom of a bay, and built on the fide of a hill, over- 
looking the fea, encompafied with high walls towards the land, 
and commanded by a flrong caflle ; the heat would be very trou- 
bleibme here, but for the fea-breezes, which cool and fan the air. 
In the caflle, Dr. Smith met with a Roman monument, ere£led 
to the honour of 'P. Sefius, a great officer and Ibldier m 7rajan*s 
time, who, amongfl his other titles, is there ftiled, PRO. 
FIG. MAURITANIAK TINGITANA, (which 
iince has been taken away, and prefentcd to the univerfity of 
Orford by Sir B/fgh CholmnJley.) 7 he Evglip have two 
churches here, both of them very neat and convenient, tho' not 
to be compared with the church of the ^Fortugueze-, retained ftill 
(according to the articles of agreement, when the king of Por- 
tugal made over the right, and gave tlie pofleflion of Tamper to 
the crown of England) by canons regular^ this church is very 
ftarely, adorned with rich images, and fiipported by marble 
pilh.rs. Touards ore end of the E nglip church, jull: by the 
veftiary, whicli had been formerly a Turkip mofque, and after- 
wards the chapel (>f a convent of Dominicans is a monumental 
llone-table, with v^r/z/'/V characters, containing an account of the 
houfcs, lands, and other revenues belonging thereto, fet up in the 
743d year of the Hcgira, that is of Chrili 1341. The mole is 
in 
