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runs. We have many rivers of this quality in the Alps, e- 

 fpecially between mount Cenis and Grenoble. 



Delivered now from the ftrait and rugged country on the: 

 banks of the Mogetch, we entered into a very extenfive plain, 

 bounded on the eaft fide by the mountains, and on the weft by 

 the large lake of Dembea, otherwiie called the lake Tzana, 

 or Bahar Tzana, the Sea of Tzana, which geographers have 

 corrupted into the word Barcena. Rejoiced at laft that I 

 had elbow-room, I began the mod laborious fearch for 

 Ihrubs and herbs all over the plain, my fervants on one 

 fide and I on the other, fearching the country on each fide 

 of the road. It appeared to our warm imaginations, that 

 the neighbourhood of fuch a lake, in fo remote a part of 

 the world, ought infallibly to produce fomething perfectly 

 beautiful, or altogether new. In this, however, we were 

 difappointed, as indeed we always were in meadows, and 

 where grafs grew {o exuberantly as it did all over this 

 plain. 



At eleven o'clock we croffed the river Tedda ; here the 

 road divides : that branch to the eaft leads to Wechne, iii 

 the wild, uncultivated territory of BelefTen, famous for no 

 production but that of honey. 



We continued along the other branch of the road, which 

 led fouth to Emfras. One mile diftant on our left is the 

 church of St George. About one o'clock we halted at the 

 church Zingetch Mariam ; and a few minutes after, we 

 paHTed the river Gomara, a confiderable ftream rifing in Be- 

 kilen, which Hands in pools during the dry weather, but 



had 



