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China, which is eight hundred and fifty leagues in 

 length : the Jenisca of Tartary, about eight hundred 

 leagues in length, from the lake Selinga to the Icy sea ; 

 the Oby in Siberia, of near eight hundred leagues, 

 running "from the lake of Kila into the Northern sea; 

 the Amour, in Eastern Tartary, whose course is about 

 five hundred and seventy-five leagues, from its source 

 to its entrance into the sea of Kamtkatska: the Kiam, 

 in China, five hundred and fifty leagues in length. The 

 Ganges, one of the most noted rivers in the world, is 

 about as long as the former: it is visited annually by se- 

 veral hundred thousand pilgrims, who pay their devotions 

 to the river as to a god ; for savage simplicity is always 

 known to mistake the blessings of the Deity for the Deity 

 himself. Next to this may be reckoned the celebrated 

 river Euphrates : this rises from two sources northward 

 of the city of Erzerum, in Turcomania, and unites about 

 three days journey below the same ; from whence, after 

 performing a course of five hundred leagues, it falls into 

 the gulf of Persia, The river Indus is extended, from 

 its source to its discharge into the Arabian sea, four 

 hundred leagues. 



The largest rivers of Africa, are, the Senegal, which 

 runs a course of eleven hundred leagues; and the cele- 

 brated river Nile, said to be nine hundred and seventy 

 leagues from its source, in Upper Ethiopia, to its opening 

 into the Mediterranean sea. 



This river, which the natives call Abava, that is, the 

 Father of Rivers, vises first in Sacala, a province of the 

 kingdom of Goiama, the most fruitful in all Abyssinia. 

 In the eastern part of this province, on the declivity of 

 a mountain, are two springs, each about two feet 

 diameter, a stone's cast distant from each other, which 

 are the real source of this celebrated river. Its waters, 

 after the first rise, run east about a musket-shot; then 

 turning to the north, continue hid in the grass and 

 weeds, for about a quarter of a league, and discover 

 themselves for the first time arnoog some rocks, a 

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