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APPENDIX.

Within the Gulf of Aden the same winds produce
effects directly contrary to those which I have remarked
in the Red Sea. Thus, when the southerly winds force
a superabundant supply into the Red Sea, the shores
of the Gulf of Aden suffer a corresponding depression:
and again, when north-westers prevail, the quantity
the Gulf of Aden receives from the Red Sea causes it
to rise in the same proportion. But these effects, I
am told, do not extend beyond Makullah.

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