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X.] COAST OP ARABIA. 177

Horns. To me the whole group seemed to

bear a great resemblance to representations
which I have seen of enormous icebergs.

I shall notice but briefly the islands which
lie off this part of the coast in a line between
Mowilahh and Senafer, since the sailing di­
rections will embrace all the information re­
lating to them that is of practical interest.
Shushu’ah, the most northerly of the group,
forms at a distance like a gunner’s quoin ; its
height gradually increasing from a low point

on the northern extremity, to a bluff elevation
forming its southern termination, which has a
height of three hundred and fifty feet. The
whole island appears formed of red and yel­
low (variegated) sandstone, mixed with coral;
large masses of the latter, of the circular
form (Madrepore), so often met with on reels
near the surface, may, when the rain has
washed away the soil, be seen imbedded in
the rocks; and the loose broken pieces of the
branched kind, petrified shells, and other
marine remains, are thickly strewed over the
surface. The Palinurus anchored here in a

small bight on the north-east side of the
island, between two reefs, and narrowly
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