balkets for raifins, and above forty other articles in do-
meftic ceconomy. They even fpin it like flax, which is
made into linen, for which fecret the inventor has been
amply rewarded by his prefent majefty, and a large fum
advanced him to fet up his manufa&ory.
Cape de Gat is a huge promontory, confifting of an
enormous rock, of a Angular nature, different from any
other appearance in Spain, eight leagues in circuit and
five broad ; the firft objeft that ffrikes the eye is a rock
two hundred feet high, about fifty paces from the fea,
all cryftalized in large ftones o f the fize o f a man’s leg,
with four or five plates chafed one within another, of a
cinereous colour, from eight to fourteen inches long,
with a large grain that will take a good polifli. Precious
ftones are faid to be found in the mountain of Bujo,
in a caverh with an entrance about fifteen paces wide
and twenty feet high, where the agitation df the waves
is very great in bad weather ; Mr. Bowles went in there
but could difcover nothing o f confequence. On the
outfide a large white patch ferves as a land mark to mariners,
and from thence called Vda Blanca. This is what
is properly called Cape de Gat. Near the 'Torre de las
Guardas there is a bed of jafper of a white ground veined
with red, and further on near the Torre de Nejle, alqw
rock is feen almoft covered with a ftratum o f white cor“
lielian. They gather a black fand not far from the Torre,
de San Jofeph, which proceeds from the demolition of the
rock, added to- the confiant percuflion o f the waves,
and is fold to throw over writing. They might find
another fort o f fand very near this place, lerfs angular,
which would anfwer for hour glafies, but they ftill import
it from Germany for this purpofe.
In the centre of this promontory there are lour hills
near to each other, called the Sacriftan, the Two Fry,-
ars, the Captain, and the White Mountain, but nothing
remarkable is to be obferved from their outward
appearance (a).. The other fide of the promontory, after
palling thefe four hills, is called E l Puerto de la plata,
where the Moorilh Corfairs lie lurking for Spanilh veffels
to intercept them, and' carry their crews into dire captivity.
There is a rock near this Puerto, which extends towards
the fea, and called E l monte de las guardas, where
they find amethyfts, but ftill more abundantly in a itra-
tum of quartz of very difficult accefs, being in a precipice
twenty feet high. The true ametbyft refembles a
pyramid reverfed, while the roGk cryftal has fix faces,
and is larger at bottom than at top. But there is no
probability of further refearches for precious ftones, or
even for marble, as the exportation of this latter has
[a) Mr. Bowles fays that Cape de Gat is the moil meridionalpoint o f Spain, as may be ob-
ftrved by looking on the map, but fuch an infpe&ion will convince us of the contrary, Eu-
Topa Point at Gibraltar is more fo,-and-often faid to be the moil fouther'n point; but perhaps-
the Punt a de CartteTOy on- the Algeziras fide of the Bay is yet further to the fouthward.
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