an island in the Red Sea; situated, according to the observations of Mr Bruce, in N. Lat. 15° 59' 43". It is described by him as about five miles in length from north to south, though only nine in circumference. It is low and sandy in the southern part, but the north rises in a black hill of inconsiderable height. It is covered with a kind of bent-grass, which never arrives at any great length by reason of want of rain and the constant browsing of the goats. There are great appearances of the black hill having once been a volcano; and near the north cape the ground founds hollow like the Solfaterra in Italy. There are a vast number of beautiful fish met with upon the coasts, but few fit for eating; and our traveller observed, that the most beautiful were the most noxious when eaten; none, indeed, being salutary food excepting those which resembled the fish of the northern seas. There are many beautiful shell-fish, as the concha veneris, of several colours and sizes; sea-urchins, &c. Spunges are likewise found all along the coast. There are also pearls, but neither large nor of a good water; in consequence of which they fell at no great price. They are produced by a species of bivalve shells. Several veral large shells, from the fish named *bifer*, are met with upon stones of ten or twelve tons weight along the coast. They are turned upon their faces and sunk into the stones, as into a pate, the stone being raised all about them in such a manner as to cover the edge of the shell; "a proof (says Mr Bruce) that this stone must some time lately have been soft or liquefied: for had it been long ago, the sun and air would have worn the surface of the shell; but it seems perfectly entire, and is set in that hard brown rock as the stone of a ring is in a golden chasings."—The water in this island is very good.

The inhabitants of Foosht are poor fishermen of a swarthy colour; going naked, excepting only a rag about their waist. They have no bread but what they procure in exchange for the fish they catch. What they barter in this manner is called *seagreen*. But besides this they catch another species, which is flat, with a long tail, and the skin made use of for shagreen, of which the handles of knives and swords are made. There is a small town on the island, consisting of about 30 huts, built with faggots of bent gars or sparatum, supported by a few sticks, and thatched with gars of the same kind of which they are built.