Ii8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Btess >u. ^s 



CHAP. V. 



Arrive at Adowa — Reception there — Vifit Fremona atid Ruins ofAxum j —> 



Arrive at Sire. 



ADOWA is fkuated on the declivity of a hill, on the weft 

 fide of a fmall plain furrounded everywhere by moun- 

 tains. Its natation accounts for its name, which fignifies 

 pafs, orpajfage, being placed on the flat ground immediately 

 below Ribieraini ; the pafs through which every body muft 

 go in their way from Gondar to the Red Sea. 



This plain is watered by three rivulets which are never 

 dry in the midft of fummer ; the Ana, which we crofs juft 

 below the town when coming from the eaftward ; the Mai 

 Gogua, which runs below the hill whereon Hands the vil- 

 lage of the fame name formerly, though now it is called 

 Fremona, from the monaflery of the Jefuits built there ; and 

 the Ribieraini, which, joining with the other two, falls 

 into the river Mareb, about 22 miles below Adowa. There 

 are fiih in thefe three ftreams, but none of them remarkable 



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