MAP OF ABYSSINIA, &c. 2S3 
Gould any doubt remain after this, that Mr. Bruce had copied 
the latitudes in Arabia from Mr. Niebuhr, it would be removed by 
the publication of the original observations of the former gentle- 
man, in the second edition of his travels, in which the situation of 
not one of these places appears to have been even attempted to be 
ascertained, except Yambo, Jidda, and Loheia. 
Of the remaining observations, those respecting Jibbel Zumrud, 
Macowar, and Gamaran, are completely false ; of the islands eastward 
of Dhalac we have no opportunity of judging ; and of those below 
Loheia it appears probable he was not the author ; nor indeed is it 
probable that he actually made the voyage he has described to the 
Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. This has been placed in so strong a light, 
by the anonymous author whom I have before mentioned, that 
I shall give his observations nearly in his own words.* 
" On the 27th of July, 1769, Mr. Bruce, according to his travels, 
sailed from Loheia in the Red Sea, upon a voyage of observation 
to the Straits of Bab-el-Mandel, from which he returned to Loheia 
on the 6th of August. On the 5th of August, however, the very 
day preceding his return, two observations taken at Loheia appear 
in his journals, (vol. vii. p. 356,) in which there is no notice what- 
ever of three observations taken during the voyage, and inserted 
in his travels (vol. ii. p. ^08, 217). Mr. Bruce, in a letter given in 
the appendix to the second edition of his travels, says, " We 
left Jidda the beginning of July. The beginning of August we 
arrived at Loheia. Here we waited till the end of September, when 
we embarked on board a small boat from Massoua. In this second 
voyage across the Red Sea," (vol i. p. 279,) yet this would have 
* Monthly Magazine, December, 1807, p. 549. 
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