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ing the mountain. The province of Woggora begins at 

 Macara ; it is all plain, and reckoned the granary of Gondar 

 on this fide, although the name would denote no fuch 

 thing, for Woggora lignifies t\\e.Jlony, or rocky province. 



The mountains of Lafta and BciefTen bound our view to 

 the fouth ; the hills of Gondar on the S. W. ; and all Wog- 

 gora lies open before us to the fouth, covered, as I have faid 

 before, with grain. But the wheat of Woggora is not good, 

 owing probab'v to the height of that province. It makes 

 an indiflereiv It ad, and is much lefs efleemed than that 

 of Foggora and Dembea, low, flat provinces, flickered with 

 hills, that lie upon the fide of the lake Tzana. 



On the 12th we left Macara at feven in the morning, ftill 

 travelling through the plain of Woggora. At half pall 

 feven faw two villages called Erba Tenfa, one of them a mile 

 diilant, the other half a mile on the N. W. At eight o'clock 

 we came to Woken, five villages not two hundred yards di- 

 flant from one another. At a quarter pad eight we faw 

 five other villages to the S. W. called Warrar, from one to 

 four miles diflant, all between the points of eafl and fouth. 

 The country now grows inconceivably populous ; vail flocks 

 of j cattle of all kinds feed on every fide, having large and 

 beautiful horns, exceedingly wide, and boffes upon their 

 backs like camels ; their colour is moflly black. 



At a quarter paft eight we pafTed Arena, a village on our 

 left. At nine we pafTed the river Girama, which runs N. 

 N. W. and terminates the diftrict of Lamalmon, beginning 

 that of Giram. At ten the church of St George remained. 

 on. our right, one mile from v.s ; we croflcd a river called 



Shimbra; 



