All This Day We Saw No Rocks To Landward, But There Was
A Shoal To Seaward.
Farate is a large and fair river, the mouth of
which is in lat.
21 deg.40' N. Its mouth is formed by two low points about a
gun-shot apart, from each of which a shoal stretches towards the middle,
where only there is any passage. The river runs from the west to the
east, having very low land on both sides, without either tree or shrub
or bush of any kind. At the entrance it is 30 fathoms deep, and from
thence diminishes to 18 fathoms. Kilfit is a fine harbour and very
safe, as when once in, no wind whatever need be feared. There are at the
entry two very low points bearing N.W. 1/4 N. and S.E. 1/4 S. distant
near a quarter of a league. It is rather more than three leagues in
circuit, and every part of it is safe anchorage, having 12 fathoms water
throughout; the shore is however rocky. This harbour is rather more than
a league from the river of Farate, between which is a range of
mountains, one of which is higher than the others. We left Kilfit on
the 3d, an hour before day, and rowed along the coast till an hour
before sunset, when we anchored in a haven called Ras al Jidid, or the
new cape, about nine leagues from Kilfit. This day we saw a few shoals
to seawards, but fewer than before.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 514 of 809
Words from 140179 to 140435
of 221361
