^8^ OBSERVATIONS ON MR. BRUCE'S 
Mr. Bruce. 
Niebuhr. 
The True. 
39 Fusht 
0 / // 
15 59 43 
0 / 
0 i n 
20 Jibbel Tier 
15 35 
21 The Bank 
15 28 15 
22 Racka Garbia 
15 31 30 
23 Dobelew 
15 42 22 
15 42 
24 Ras Shouke 
15 27 30 
15 33 
25 Ras Antalow 
15 54 30 
15 50 
26 Massowah 
15 35 5 
15 35 30 
To any person accustomed to nautical observations, it must ap- 
pear most singular, that seven of the above latitudes should agree 
precisely with those given by Mr. Niebuhr, though the one was 
travelling by land, and the other by sea. Even with the excellent 
instruments which are now used, it frequently occurs that, in the 
same vessel, in calculations made on the same data, the result differs 
by a mile ; how astonishing, then, must it appear, that with dif- 
ferent instruments, and certainly more imperfect ones, the result 
should here be the same. It is equally extraordinary that Mr. Bruce, 
in a coasting voyage, should invariably find it convenient to ascer- 
tain the latitude of those places only in Arabia, which Mr. Niebuhr 
had before given to the public, in a work which Mr. Bruce refers 
to in speaking of Mocha, while he passes over many others of equal, 
if not greater importance. Rabac differs from Mr. Niebuhr's lati- 
tude only one mile ; Yambo only a little more ; Duime is not men- 
tioned by him, nor El Horma ; but the former Mr. Bruce owns he 
passed in the night, and does not even pretend to have made any 
observation to ascertain it ; and the latter he describes as being close 
to Muftura, which is laid down by Niebuhr in ^3° 5' N. 
