On the 1st of October, we made _Cape Guadel_, a piece of land of a moderate and rather equal height, which projects far into the sea, and is connected with the continent by an isthmus less than half a mile in breadth. Close under the north side of the cape, there is still a town; and on the isthmus, as we could perceive from the ship, are the remains of an old fort. In the neighbourhood are the vestiges of a town also, built with stone, and some wells.[9] But the more modern village of _Guadel_ is composed of mat houses, and the greater part of the inhabitants (the number of the whole is very small) are weavers, who manufacture coarse linen and carpets of ordinary colours. From _Crotchey_ to _Cape Monze_ the people call themselves _Balouches_; and from _Monze_ to _Cape Jasques_, they take the name of _Brodies_: there is some difference in their language, perhaps in their religion also, but none in their dress or manners. The high lands about _Cape Guadel_ are all extremely remarkable, rising in spires and turrets so correctly formed, as to give to many parts of the coast, an appearance of towns with their churches and castles. Their rocky summits, split and rent, Form’d turret, dome, and battlement, Or seem’d fantastically set With cupola or minaret, Wild crests as pagod ever deck’d Or mosque of eastern architect. _Lady of the Lake, Canto_ I. xi. p. 14. [Illustration: _Cape Posmee._ _Drawn by James Morier Esq^r._ _Published by Mess^{rs}. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row, May 1, 1811._] One piece of land in particular, forming an entrance to the bay behind _Cape Guadel_, has the most striking resemblance to a long range of gothic ruin. We perceived three camels grazing on the heights of the cape, and some few signs of cultivation, which we had discovered on no other spot along the coast before. On the 3d. we saw the town of _Chubar_; and plainly distinguished among other objects a walled building, which we at first took to be a fort, but which according to the Directory, is a place of burial. We saw several boats with _lateen_ sails, of a canvas very conspicuously white, cut exactly like the sails of the boats on the coast of Italy and Sicily. The thermometer was 84°. The 5th. was very sultry, and the thermometer was 90°. On the 6th. a hot wind came from off the land, and warped the tables, mathematical rulers, and the furniture in the cabin, besides slackening all our rigging. This wind brought with it a thick mist of an impalpable sand, which gradually cleared away, and left us the first view of _Cape Jasques_.