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speak hereafter ; and also that the account of his voyage renders a 
lower latitude impossible. He says, that he sailed from Gosseir 
with a light air on the 14th of March, and, about twelve on the 
15th, was three miles from Jibbel Zumrud. For these twenty-seven 
hours it is impossible, with a light air, to allow him more than a 
degree of latitude, which, with the addition of the longitude, would 
amount to seventy miles. Besides, on his return, with a strong 
gale, Jibbel Zumrud was on his lee bow at day light, and he 
arrived before sun-set at Gosseir, having run the same distance in 
eleven hours, which occupied twenty-seven hours with a light air; 
consequently the distance could not be more than seventy miles. 
D'Anville seems to have led him into the mistake, who places, not 
the Island of Emeralds, but Maaden-el-Zumrud, or the emerald 
mines, in ^4* 45'. 
Mr. Bruce departed from Jibbel Zumrud on the 1 6th at three in the 
afternoon, and on the 1 7th at twelve he was, as he says, four miles 
north of an island called Macowar, which he found to be in lat. 
24° ^'N. The asserted position of this island cannot be owing'to any 
error of the press, not only for the same reason, of his having 
given the run of a degree in the twenty-one hours, but also from 
his stating that it lies off the celebrated Ras-el-Anf, or Gape of 
the Nose, where, he rightly observes, that " the land, after run- 
ning in a direction nearly N. W. and S. E. turns round in the 
shape of a large promontory, and changes its direction to N. E. and 
S. W". It is evident that there is an island in the position he has 
given to Macowar, which is by mistake called Emerald Island in 
Sir Home Popham's chart, but is in fact the Kornaka of Don Juan 
de Castro, while the real Jibbel Zumrud is placed in its proper 
