MYOS HORMOS. 331 
I think it appears equally clear that it was impossible for him to 
have made a voyage from Cosseir to the real Macowar, a distance 
of nearly four hundred miles, in the period he allows himself, from 
the 14th of March to the lUh,and consequently that he never did 
see that place, although his description of it, and also his assertion 
that the Arabs there quit the coast of Africa to strike off for Jidda, 
are both accurate. 
I think it impossible to account for these errors in any other 
way than by considering the whole voyage as an episodical fiction 
compiled from the accounts of other navigators, and the information 
he might pick up at Jidda respecting the course of the Arab navi- 
gation ; an idea which I strongly entertained on the spot, and which 
has been confirmed, since my return, by the observation first made 
by an ingenious but anonymous writer in the Monthly Magazine, 
that of twenty charts or drawings taken by Mr. Bruce's assistant, 
Luigi Balugani, in the Red Sea, not one relates to the pretended 
voyage from Cosseir to Jibbel Zumrud. lam surprised that the 
same writer did not take notice of the equally remarkable circum- 
stance, that not a single observation of latitude is to be found in 
Mr. Bruce's list, as taken either at Jibbel Zumrud, or Macowar, or 
even the island which he named after himself, though he has as- 
serted in his voyage, that he ascertained the position of these places 
by the meridian altitude, and has actually given observations made 
at Cosseir, both before his departure, and immediately after his 
return to that place. 
The only celebrated port of antiquity, that remains to be ascer- 
tained on the western shore of the Red Sea, is Myos Hormos, which 
is mentioned by the Periplus, as being one thousand eight hundred 
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