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ing it impossible to effect this without 
endangering our boat, we at last, with 
some difficulty, got on shore on the main 
land on the rocky point, where it is be 
lieved that the unfortunate “ ship of Alex¬ 
andria” finished her last voyage. Those 
who have investigated the subject affirm, 
that there is no other part of Malta which 
will agree with the description given in the 
Acts, but that here, during a Euroclydon, 
which is supposed to have been a violent gale 
of wind from the north, or north-east quarter, 
there is a heavy swell, rushing round each 
side of Selmone, and forming, indeed, a 
place where two seas meet in the narrow 
channel, which separates the island from the 
main land. The bay is about seven miles 
north-west from Valetta, and is rather more 
than a mile wide, and about two deep, ap¬ 
pearing from the sea like the mouth of a large 
