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end, you will fee fomething that looks very like two 

 mofques > but this cannot be feen at a greater diftance 

 than 4 or 5 leagues j but when it is, you may be 

 certain it is Cape Aden, and may then fleer your 

 courie for Babel mandel accordingly. 



A little to the weftward of this cape, there is an- 

 other high craggy headland, equally high and 

 craggy as that of Aden, between which two there 16 

 an opening, very much refembling a fmall narrow 

 freight, but in reality it is only a deep bay, the bot- 

 tom of which is very low land, fo low, that it can- 

 not be feen from the maft-head, except you are 

 clofe in more : by this deception, people have mif- 

 taken it for the Streight of Babelmandel, and have 

 been fo far embayed, before they perceived their 

 miftake, that it was with the greateft difficulty they 

 got out again. 



On each fide of this bay lies a large rock, juil at 

 the entrance, and at about a quarter of a mile from 

 the fhore : when thefe are feen, you may be fure it 

 is not the Streight of Babelmandel. Was a fhip to 

 fail in with this place, and had not had an obfervation 

 for fome days before, 1 think it would be very eafy 

 to mifuke one for the other j there is only this dif- 

 ference, that Cape Aden is high and rugged, and 

 Babelmandel is rather low and fmooth, and the 

 iff and (as the Directory obferves) makes like a 

 gunner's coin. 



The bell courfe to fleer from Cape Aden to Saint 

 Anthony is W. by S. by the compafs, and that will 

 carry you clear of the fhoal lying off that point. I 

 -made the diftance between Cape Aden and Cape Saint 

 Anthony, by the Chip's run, 17 leagues j the latter 



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