1803.] 
rounded with breakers) I found the bear- 
ings of Fatfah to be S. W. a quarter W. 
4°. W. eight or nine miles: and of Cape 
Unich to be W,. 10°. N. feventeen or 
eighteen miles. This latter point is there- 
fore erroneoufly placed in the charts S. W. 
of Yaffoun, and I afcertained this cor- 
rection by repeated obfervation on the 
compafs, 
Leaving Cape Yaffoun, and not far off 
if is a fquare tower, on the top of a 
fugar-loaf-fhaped hill, which forms a good 
Jand-mark. We failed from Yaffoun in 
the morning, with an eafterly wind, at the 
rate of three to four knots an hour: when 
we were half way between Yaffoun and 
Unieh, the greateft depth of the bay, in a 
perpendicular line to our courle, was 
about nine miles. In the evening we an- 
chored at Unieh, having cut acrofs the 
gulph of Fatfah during this day, from one 
extreme cape to the other. The fhores 
and inland country are thickly covered 
with wood. 
Unieh is a finall town on the coat, in 
a delightful pofition, being fituated, like 
Trebizond, on the flope of a hill: the 
houfes are all in the midit of gardens, 
facing to the eaft, and lengthening on to- 
wards Cape Unieh. A fmall river runs 
through the town, the banks of which 
form a valley, bounded by woody hills. 
Wirhoat being an enthufhaff for foreign 
countries, I miuft acknowledge myfelf 
much ftruck with the appearance of thefe 
fhores, covered with forefts to the water’s 
edge; and this was particularly grateful 
to me, who had feen little elf but deferts 
in my travels in thefe parts; for even 
Perfia, this celebrated empire, has neither 
weods nor rivers, at lcaft in the northern 
provinces, over which I travelled for 300 
leagues, and I do not recolle& to have 
feen a fingle timber-tree in moft of the 
Greek ifles in which I ever fet foot. 
The road of Unieh is pre!ty good; the 
“faiks, which are the large veffels of the 
‘country, anchor about half a league off 
fhore, the fmaller craft are drawn afhore 
on the approach of rough weather, as we 
did with our own bark, to avoid a hard 
"gale. 
We found on the fand of the beach a 
bulbous-rooted plant, with a flower of a 
dazzling white; it rifes about a foot high, 
and, L underftand, is very common at 
Ajexandria. 
By obfervations on the height of the 
‘fyo, from the level of the fea, we efti- 
mated: the longitude of Unieh at 33’. 
Hes 
On the 28th it was very cold in the 
MontTury Mag, No, 98. 
Account of Cambridge. 117 
night: the thermometer, inclofed in its 
cafe, fell to 63°. Fah. 
‘We quitted Unieh on the 28th, with 
an eafterly wind. From Cape Unieh to 
Cape Teherehembeh the fhore is covered 
with breakers; the chain of movntains 
retires tg’about nine to twelve miles from 
the fea, and the plain below is very flat, 
and covered with trees. ‘The general 
direétion of the coatt is nearly N. W. 
We found a fhoal here, beginning near 
Unieh, and extending much above the 
river Thermeh, acrofs the mouth of whicn 
we failed. 
From Cape Unieh, Cape Thermeh bears 
W. quarter N.W. 4°. N. and appears 
about 24 miles off. 
We came to the termination of the flat. 
fhore at Cape Teherehembeh, behind which 
the diftant mountains appear very lofty. Be- 
fore this cape I took the height of the fun, 
which gave the longitude of this point to 
be 29’ 57" 7. from Conftautinople, or 
34.° 6' 5“ from Paris. 
On the 31{ft we were off Guerzeh, lon- 
gitude 24’ 59” 6. from Conftantinople. 
The fhore is rocky, covered with wood, 
and around the town the ground is culti- 
vated, and planted with olive-trees. A 
fmall river runs through it. On the night 
of the 1 of Auguft we anchored at Si- 
nope. I immediately fent my Janiflary 
with my firman to the Governor, and I 
had a houfe directly provided me, in which 
I eftablifhed myfelf for the prefent. 
(To be continued ) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of CAMBRIDGE. 
(Continued from p. 31, of No. 97.) 
se is now time to beftow more particu- 
lar notice upon the town ot Cambridge ; 
in doing which, other remarks upon the 
univerfity will be occafionally intermixed, 
This town was probably much larger, 
than it is now, inthe time of the Ro- 
mans; and according to fome accounts it 
ex ended from Grantchefter, a village on 
the fouth- wef, to Chefterton on the north- 
weft, and confequentiy was more than 
thiee miles in length. It was certainly a 
Roman city, and was then on the oppofite 
fide of the river: the remains of a Ro- 
man ftation are yet exifling near the caitle; 
the fortification of which appears to have 
been regular, .and the entrenchments dif. - 
tinétly marked out. The caftle was 
built by William the Conqueror, the gate- 
houfe of which {till remains, and is em- 
ployed’ as the county-gaol; but a new. 
prifon is now bujlding im the caltle-yard, 
upen 
