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or fea-eggs. I found, particularly, one of the pentaphylloid 

 kind, of a very particular form. Spunges of the common 

 fort are likewife found all along this coaft. The bearings 

 and distances of the principal iflands from Foofht are : 



Baccalan, and the two rocks Djund 7 m ^ es 



and Mufracken, E. N. E. J 



Baida rock, E. by N. 4 miles. 

 Sahar, - - S. E. 3 do. 

 Ardaina, - W.N.W. 8 do, 

 Aideen, - - N.^E. 9 do. 



Baccalan is an ifland, low, long, and as broad as Foofht, 

 inhabited by fifhermen ; without water in fummer, which 

 is then brought from Foofht, but in winter they preferve the 

 rain-water in ciflerns. Thefe were built in ancient timeSj 

 when this was a place of importance for the fifhing of pearls, 

 and they are in perfect repair to this day ; neither the ce- 

 ment of the' work, nor the llucco within, having at all fuf- 

 fered. Very violent fhowers fall here from the end of Oc- 

 tober to the beginning of March, but at certain intervals. 



All the iflands on this eaft-fide of the channel' belong 

 to the SherrifFe Djezan Booarifh, but none are inhabited ex- 

 cept Baccalan and Foofht. This lad ifland is the raoft con- 

 venient watering-place for mips, bound up the channel from' 

 Jibbel Teir, from which it bears N. E. by E. f E. by the com- 

 pafs, nineteen leagues diftant. It fhould be remembered, 

 however, that the weftern watering-place is mofl eligible,, 

 becaufe, in that cafe, navigators need not engage themfelves 

 among the iflands to the eaflward, where they will have 

 uneven foundings two leagues from the land ; but, though 



they 



