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had travelled in eight days, or more than thirty miles a-day, 

 which, in that country, is abfolutely impoflible. 



But what muft make this evident is, that we know cer- 

 tainly that Gondar, the metropolis to which they were then 

 going, is in lat. 12° 34' north. Giefim then would be fouth 

 of Gondar, and the caravan muft have paffed it when the 

 obfervation was made. But they were not yet arrived at 

 the confines of Sennaar, much lefs to the capital of Abyf- 

 fmia, to which they were indeed advancing, but were ftill 

 far to the northward of it. There is a miftake then in this 

 obfervation which is very pardonable, Brevedent being then 

 ill of a mortal dyfentery, which terminated in death foon 

 after. We fhall, therefore, corred this error, making the 

 latitude of Giefim 14° 12' north, about 1 10 Englilh miles from 

 Sennaar, and 203 from Gondar. 



The nth of June they fet out from Giefim for Deleb, 

 then to Chow, and next to Abotkna. They reded all night, 

 the 14th, in the delightful valley of Sonnone, and, two days 

 after, they came to Serke, a large town of trade, where there 

 are many cotton weavers. Here ends the kingdom of Sen- 

 naar, the brook without this town being the boundary of 

 the two ftates. 



Arrived now in Abyffinia, they haired at TambifTo, a 

 village which belongs to the Abuna ; next at Abiad, a vil- 

 lage upon the mountain. On the 23d they flopped in a val- 

 ley full of canes and ebony- trees, where a lion carried a- 

 way one of their camels. On the 24th they paffcd the Gan- 

 dova, a large, violent, and dangerous river. The country 

 being prodigioully woody, one of their bcafts of carriage, 



ftraggling 



