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pletely shut up the road towards the sea-coast. But my 

 brother could never be induced to give up the game that 

 seemed already within his grasp ; and when we parted at 

 Goander, he was already directing his steps to the unknown 

 regions of Daraoh, Enarea, Kafa, and Djandjow. May the 

 Almighty God look with favour on the daring and lonely 

 traveller ! 



" I need not tell you that all my barometers were shiver- 

 ed to atoms long before I crossed the mountain passes of 

 Abyssinia. I was obliged to have recourse to observations 

 on the temperature of boiling water, for which I was pro- 

 vided with an excellent and delicate thermometer. As au- 

 thors do not exactly agree in the manner of calculating these 

 observations, I shall here insert some of the original entries. 

 They will throw some light on the long disputed question of 

 the height of Abyssinian mountains. 



Boiling Water. Air. 

 " Mountains near Halay (primitive rocks) 29th March, 6 A. M. 93°.9 14°. 4 

 x\dwa id. .... 10th May, 



Terasbga (east bank of the Tacazay) 19th May, 

 Tacazay, (close to the water) . . 20th May, 

 Amodjagi, (west bank of the Tacazay) 27th May, 

 Goander, ..... 8th June, 



Kaba, (village near Samen) . . 5th. July, 

 Ewari, (on Mount Bawhit) trap rocks 7th July, 



"The summit of Mount Bawhit is at least 1800 feet above 

 the village of Ewari. This Mount Bawhit is, after Amba Hai, 

 the highest mountain in Abyssinia. When I crossed part of 

 it, the ground was covered with unmelted hail, which looked 

 at a distance like snow. This observation conciliates in 

 some measure the conflicting testimonies of Bruce and 

 Salt." 



" AiiEXANBKiA, 31st December, 1838. 



** I had deferred closing this, until I could discover some 

 means of forwarding it to Europe. Unfortunately, after a 

 long and fruitless delay, I was compelled to be my own mes- 



