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end, you will fee fomething that looks very like two 
mofques ; but this cannot be Teen at a greater diflance 
than 4 or 5 leagues ; but when it is, you may be 
certain it is Cape Aden, and may then fleer your 
courle for Babelmandel accordingly. 
A little to the weflward of this cape, there is an- 
other high craggy headland, equally high and 
craggy as that of Aden, between which two there is 
an opening, very much refembling a fmall narrow 
flreight, but in reality it is only a deep bay, the bot- 
tom of which is very low land, fo low, that it can- 
not be feen from the mafl-head, except you are 
clofe in fhore : by this deception, people have mif- 
taken it for the Streight of Babelmandel, and have 
been fo far embayed, before they perceived their 
miflake, that it was with the greateft difficulty they 
got out again. 
On each fide of this bay lies a large rock, juft at 
the entrance, and at about a quarter of a mile from 
the fhore : when thefe are feen, you may be fure it 
is not the Streight of Babelmandel. Was a ffiip to 
fall in with this place, and had not had an obfervation 
for fome days before, I think it would be very eafy 
to miflake one for the other ; there is only this dif- 
ference, that Cape Aden is high and rugged, and 
Babelmandel is rather low and fmooth, and the 
ifland (as the Directory obferves) makes like a 
gunner’s coin. 
The bell courfe to freer from Cape Aden to Saint 
Anthony is W. by S. by the compafs, and that will 
carry you clear of the fhoal lying off that point. I 
made the diftance between Cape Aden and Cape Saint 
•Anthony, by the /hip’s run, 17 leagues ; the latter 
cape 
