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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 bearing* 

 and diflances of the principal iflands from Foofht are : 



Baccalan, and the two rocks Djund 1 Am n 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.. 

 Aide en, - - N.-^E. 9 do.., 



Baccalan is an ifland, low, long, and as broad as FoofRt >; 

 inhabited by filhermen ; without water in fummer, which 

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

 rain-water in cifterns. Thefe were built in ancient times y , 

 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 ftuoco within, having at all dif- 

 fered. Very violent mowers 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 laft ifland is the mofl con- 

 venient watering-placefor mips, bound up the channel from> 

 jibbel Tcir, from which it bears N. E. by E. :% E. by the com- 

 pafs, nineteen leagues diftant. It mould be remembered, 

 however, that the weflern watering-place is mofl: eligible,, 

 becaufe, in that cafe, navigators need not engage themfelves 

 among the iflands to the eaftward, where they will have 

 T&neven foundings two leagues from the land ; but, though 



they 



