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.  Two leagues from Kilfit there is a very good haven named Moamaa; and from the point of the shrubs to another very long sandy point, about two leagues distant, before the port of Ras-al-Jidid, the coast runs N. and S. with a small deviation to the N.W. and S.E. the distance being about three and a half leagues[295]. Ras-al-Jidid[296] is a small but very pleasant haven, 57 leagues beyond Swakem, and so exactly circular that it resembles a great cauldron.  There are two points at its entrance bearing N. and S. and on the inside the eastern winds only can do harm.  All the ground is very clean, having 18 fathoms at the mouth and 13 within; and half a league inland there is a well of water, though not very plentiful, and bitterish.  This port is a large half league in circuit.  It is a singularity in all the rivers or harbours which I have seen on this coast, that they have no bars or banks at their mouths, which are generally deeper than within.  On the land round this port, I found certain trees which in their trunk and bark resembled cork-trees, but very different in all other respects.  Their leaves were very large, wonderfully thick, and of a deep green, crossed with large veins.  They were then in flower, and their flowers in the bud resembled the flowers of the mallow when in that state:  But such as were opened were white, and like the white cockle.  On cutting a bough or leaf there run out a great stream of milk, as from the dug of a goat.  On all this coast I saw no other trees, except a grove a little beyond Massua, in some marshy ground near the sea.  Besides these trees, there are some valleys inland producing a few capers, the leaves of which are eaten by the Moors, who say they be appropriate to the joynts.  On the 4th of April, from sunrise till eleven o’clock, the wind blew a storm from the N.W. after which there was much and loud thunder, accompanied with hail, the stones being the largest I ever saw.  With the thunder the wind veered about to every point of the compass, and at last it settled in the north.  This day I carried my instruments on shore, when I found the variation 1-1/4 degree north-east[297], and the latitude by many observations 22 deg.  N. Though these observations were made on shore with great care, so that I never