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The 5th, at fcvcn o'clock in the morning, we leftDebra 

 Toon, and came to the edge of a deep valley bordered wi h 

 wood, the defcent of which is very fteep. The Anzo, larger 

 and more rapid than the Angueah, runs through the middle 

 of this valley ; its bed is full of large, fmooth ftones, and 

 the fides compofed of hard rock, and difficult to defcend ; the 

 ftream is equally clear and rapid with the other. We af- 

 cended the valley on the other fide, through the moll diffi- 

 cult road we had met with fince that of the valley of Sire. 

 At ten o'clock we found ourfelves in the middle of three 

 villages, two to the right, and one on the left ; they are 

 called Adamara, from Adama a mountain, on the eaft fide 

 of which is Tchober. At eleven o'clock we encamped at the 

 foot of the mountain Adama, in a fmall piece of level ground, 

 after palling a pleafant wood of no confiderable extent. 

 Adama, in Amharic, figiiifies pleafant) and nothing can be 

 more wildly fo than the view from this flation. 



Tchober is clofe at the foot of the mountain, fnrround- 

 ed on every fide, except the north, by a deep valley covered 

 with wood. On the other fide of this valley arc the broken 

 hills which conftitute the rugged banks of the Anzo. On 

 the point of one of thefe, moil extravagantly fliaped, is the 

 village Shahagaanah, projecting as it were over the river ; 

 and, behind thefe, the irregular and broken mountains cf 

 Salent appear, efpecia'lly thole around Hauza, in forms which 

 European mountains never wear ; and ilill higher, above 

 thefe, is the long ridge of Samen, which run along in an. 

 even ftretch till they are interrupted by the high conical 

 top of Lamalmon, reaching above the clouds, and reckoned 

 to be the higheft hill ia Abyffinia, over the fteepcfl part or 



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