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have just quoted, and which, I think, prove incontrovertibly that 
Mr. Bruce never was below Loheia. 
The chart of the Red Sea by Monsieur De La Rochette, was re- 
pubhshed by Mr. Faden in 1781, with many additions by Colonel 
Capper. This, though far superior to the chart of Monsieur D*Apres 
de Manevillette, had many errors, by all of which Mr. Bruce was 
misled in his fictitious voyage. He reaches the Island of Rasab at 
five in the morning, passes Camaran at six, at twelve passes a low 
round island, and at one is off Cape Israel. This, according to 
Faden's chart, is perfectly correct, but unfortunately Camaran is 
nearer to Loheia than Rasab : and instead of its being a six hour's 
voyage from Camaran to Cape Israel, they are not above three 
miles asunder. The anchoring on a shoal, which hes immediately 
east of the north fort of Mocha, where no shoal actually is ; his 
description of Perim, as five miles long and two miles broad, when 
in fact it is only three miles long and not one broad ; his assertion, 
that the narrow Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb are two leagues wide, 
when in fact they are not one; his calling the islands in the great 
Straits low, when in fact they are lofty rocks ; and his account of 
die chain of hills along the African shore, when the hills are single, 
and at a great distance from each other, are errors which a person 
who had visited the spot, could never have fallen into. Crab 
Island had been named and placed in the chart of 1780, by De La 
Rochette ; from its position, it is probably designed for one of the 
small islands near Ras Firmah; but it is given of a much greater 
size than it really is. 
It is a consolation to my feelings as aia Englishman, that this 
royage is so evidently a fiction ; and the real fi^iends of Mr. Brucq 
