THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. $3 



bly fliort and fmall ; inftead of the wool they have hair, 

 as all the iheep within the tropics have, but this is remark- 

 able for its luitre and foftnefs, without any briftly quality, 

 fuch as thofe in Beja, or the country of Sennaar ; but they 

 are neither fo fat, nor is their flefh fo good, as that or tae 

 iheep in the warmer country. The goats here, too, are of 

 the largefl fize 4 but they are not very rough, nor is their 

 hair long. 



The plain on the top of the mountain Taranta was, in 

 many places, fown with wheat, which was then ready to be 

 cut down, though the harveft was not yet begun. The 

 grain was clean, and of a good colour, but inferior in fize 

 to that of Egypt. It did not, however, grow thick, nor was 

 the ftalk above fourteen inches high. The water is very 

 bad on the top of Taranta, being only what remains 

 of the rain in the hollows -of the rocks, and in pits prepared 

 for it. 



Being very tired, we pitched our tent on the top of the 

 mountain. The night was remarkably cold, at leaft ap- 

 peared fo to us, whofe pores were opened by the exceffive 

 heat of Mafuah ; for at mid-day the thermometer flood 6i°, 

 and at fix in the evening 59 ; the barometer, at the fame 

 time, iSV inches French. The dew began to fall Wrongly, 

 and fo continued till an hour after fun-fet, though the 

 iky was perfectly clear, and the final left ftars difcerniblc. 



I killed a large eagle here this evening, about fix feet 

 ten inches from wing to wing. It feemed very tame till 

 fhot. The ball having wounded it but flight! v, when on 

 the ground it could not be prevented from attacking the 



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