i8a TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



this obfervation,Taguzait, or Guza, though really the bafe 

 of LamalmoD, is not a quarter of a mile high. 



Ten minutes before nine o'clock we pitched our tent 

 on a fmall plain called Dippebaha, on the top of the moun- 

 tain, above a hundred yards from a fpring, which fcarcely 

 was abundant enough to fupply us with water, in quality 

 as indifferent as it was fcanty. The plain bore flrong 

 marks of the excelhve heat of the fun, being full of cracks 

 and chafms, and the grafs burnt to powder. There are 

 three (mall villages fo near each other that they may be 

 faid to compofe one. Near them is the church of St George, 

 on the top of a fmall hill to the eaftward, furrounded with 

 large trees. 



Since palling the Tacazze we had been in a very wild 

 country, left fo, for what I know, by nature, at leaf! now 

 lately rendered more fo by being the theatre of civil war. 

 The whole was one wildernefs without inhabitants, unlefs 

 at Addergey. The plain of Dippebaha had nothing of this 

 appearance ; it was full of grafs, and interfperfed with 

 flowering lhrubs, jefiamin,and roles, feveral kinds of which 

 were beautiful, but only one fragrant. The air was very 

 frefh and plcalant ; and a great number of people, palling 

 to and fro, animated the fcenc. 



We met this day feveral monks and nuns of Waldubba, I 

 fbould fay pairs^ for they were two and two together. 

 They faid they had been at the market of Dobarke on the 

 fide of Lamalmon, juit above Dippebaha. Eoth men and 

 women, but efpecially the latter, had large burdens of 

 proviiions an their flioulders, bought that day, as they 



faid, 



