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I went afhorehere to gather fhells, and mot a fmall ani- 

 mal among the rocks, called Daman Ifrael, orlfrael'sLamb; 

 I do not know why, for it has no refemblance to the iheep 

 kind. I take it to be the faphan of the Hebrew Scripture, 

 which we tranflate by the coney. I have given a drawing, 

 and defcription of it, in its proper place *. I fhot, likewife, 

 feveral dozens of gooto, the leaft beautiful of the kind I had 

 feen, being very fmall, and coloured like the back of a part- 

 ridge, but very indifferent food. 



The 1 2th, we failed from Cape Mahomet, juft as the fun 

 appeared. We pafTed the iiland of Tyrone, in the mouth of 

 the Elanitic Gulf, which divides it near equally into two ; 

 or, rather the north-weft fide is narrowest. The direction 

 of the Gulf is nearly north and fouth. I judge it to be 

 about fix leagues over. Many of the Cairo fhips are loft 

 in miftaking the entry of the Elanitic for that of the Heroo- 

 politic Gulf, or Gulf of Suez ; for, from the iiland of Tyrone, 

 which is not above two leagues from the Main, there runs 

 a ftring of iflands, which feem to make a femicircular bar 

 acrofs the entry from the point, where a fhip, going with 

 a fouth wind, would take its departure ; and this range of 

 iflands ends in a fhoal with funken rocks, which reaches 

 near five leagues from the Main. It is probable, that, upon 

 thefe iflands, the fleet of Rehoboam perimed, when failing 

 for the expedition of Ophir f, 



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See the artic'e Afhkoko in the Appendix. f 2 Chron. chap. xx. ver. 37th. 



