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by its ftrength a whirlpool, where failors faid fhips 
were loft, if forced into it, for want of wind, by 
the current. This pool is about fix miles northward 
of Cape Karondel ; and juft below this pool there 
is a fand, a flat illand at low water, which runs 
eaft and w 7 eft about three miles. This fand, I fuppofe, 
is thrown up by the force of the current; and the 
fame current, by the refiftance it meets with from 
this bank, being forced back into the cavity made by 
this excavation, forms the whirlpool. This pool is 
called Birque Pharaone, the well, or pool of Pharaoh ; 
and here they affirm his hoft wasdeftroyed. I fliall fay 
more of this as I travel back by land. We came to 
an anchor in fifteen fathom water, within a mile and 
a half of the fhore, to the fouthward of this fand, and 
in the Birque Karondel, to the northward of the cape;., 
here the eaftern ihore is already mountainous, which, 
near this place, was a fandy beach : the Egyptian 
fhore, from Suez to Badeah, is likewife rocky and 
fteep ; fo no entering upon the golf from that fhore, 
but at Badeah or Suez. 
It is high water always, when the moon is at her 
meridian height, and it ebbsfix hours. At Suez, it flows 
fix foot ; the fpring tides are nine, and in the variable 
months, from the beginning of November, to the end of 
April, fometimes twelve. From the^beginningof May to 
die beginning of October, a northerly wind generally 
riles, and goes down with the fun ; it is often very ftrong. 
This wind never fails in thefe months, unlefs there be 
iome violent ftorm; the reft of the year the winds are 
variable, and when they, blow hard at S. and S. S. E. 
thefe winds fet up the lea through the narrow Freight 
of Babel Mandel, and up this golf through its mouth, 
between 
