Show the bollum anchorage tho the gult ault of sollum to la a misnomer as a glanco at any good map will show how at ras el malir the coast takes a sudden trend south for 20 miles then burnst turns its as abruptly I 1 in n an easterly direction near the tha angle the high coast drops suddenly in a cliffy point nearly bif a mile south of which 1 la the anchorage on a weedy bottom twelve miles north Is bardley Bard leh a better shelter which would be made into a L tolerable harbor by a breakwater it if the frontier line of egypt were carried about four our miles to the west bardley would be included la in egyptian territory the sollum anchorage derives its ita principal value from the fact that it Is the nearest point on tho the mediterranean to the bigah oasis and Is thus the sea end of the most moat direct route through a string of oases cases to th the sudan but to describe this uninviting corner afan inhospitable coast as aa the finest harbor in these parta parm in the words of a contemporary ts is altogether misleading |