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CHAP. X. 



Geographical Divifion of Abyjfinia itito Provinces, 



AT Mafuah, that is, on the coaft of the Red Sea, begins 

 an imaginary divifion of Abyflinia into two, which is 

 rather a divifion of language than ftrictly to be underftood 

 as territorial. The firll divifion is called Tigre, between the 

 Red Sea and the river Tacazze. Between that river and the 

 Nile, weftward, where it bounds the Galla, it is called Am- 

 hara. 



Whatever convenience there maybe from this divifion, 

 there is neither geographical nor hiftorical precifion in it, 

 for there are many little provinces included in the firft that 

 do not belong to Tigre ; and, in the fecond divifion, which 

 is Amhara, that which gives the name is but a very fmall 

 part of it. 



Again, 



