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points like fingers. The third, called the Breafls of the Vir- 

 gin, is a beautiful Ihell, perfectly pyramidal, generally a- 

 bout four inches in height, and beautifully variegated with 

 mother-of-pearl, and green. All thefe fifties have a pep- 

 pery tafte, but are not therefore reckoned the lefs whole- 

 fome, and they are fo much the more convenient, that they 

 carry that ingredient of fpice along with them for fauce, with 

 which travellers, like me, very feldom burden themfelves. 



Besides a number of very fine fhells, we picked up fe- 

 veral branches of coral, coralines, yufTer*, and many other 

 articles of natural hiftory. We were abundantly provided 

 with every thing ; the weather was fair ; and we never 

 doubted it was to continue, fo we were in great fpirits, and. 

 only regreted that we had not, once for all, taken leave of 

 CofTeir, and flood over for Jidda. 



In this difpofition we failed about three o'clock in the 

 afternoon, and the wind flattered us fo much, that next 

 day, the 17th, about eleven o'clock, we found ourfelves a- 

 bout two leagues a-flern of a fmall ifland, known to the 

 Pilot by the name of Jibbel Macouar. This ifland is at 

 lead four miles from the fhore, and is a high land, fo that 

 it may be feen, I fuppofe, eight leagues at fea, but is gene- 

 rally confounded with the Continent. I computed myfelf to 

 be about 4' of the meridian diftant when I made the obler- 

 vation, and take its latitude to be about 24 2' on the centre 

 of the ifland. 



The 



* It is a Keratophyte, growing at the bottom of the fca 



