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had now begun to run ; its courfe N. E. and S. \V. acrofs the 

 plain, after which it falls into the lake Tzana. 



At two we halted at Correva, a fmall village, beautifully 

 fuuated on a gentle-rifing ground, through which the road 

 panes in view of the lake, and then again divides ; one 

 branch continuing fouth to Emfras, and fo on to Foggora 

 and Dara; the other to Mitraha, two fmall iflands in the 

 lake, lying S. W. from this at the diftance of about four 

 hours journey. The road from Correva to Emfras, for the 

 firft hour, is all in the plain ; for the fecond, along the gentle 

 flope of a mountain of no confiderable height ; and the re- 

 mainder is upon a perfect flat, or along the lake Tzana, 



The 5th of April, at five in the morning, we left our pre- 

 fent nation at Correva, where, though we had employed fe- 

 deral hours in the fearch, we found very little remarkable 

 of either plants or trees, being moflly of the kind we had 

 already feen. We continued our road chiefly to the fouth, 

 through the fame fort of country, till we came to the foot 

 of a mountain, or rather a hill, covered with bufhes and 

 thorny trees, chiefly the common acacia, but of no fize, and 

 feeming not to thrive. I pitched my tent here to fearch 

 what that cover would produce. There were a great quan- 

 tity of hares, which I could make no ufe of, the Abyflinians 

 holding them in abhorrence, as thinking them unclean ; 

 bu< to make amends, I found great ftore of Guinea fowls, 

 of the common grey kind we have in Europe, of which I 

 mot, in a little time, above a fcore ; and thefe, being perfectly 

 lawful food, proved a very agreeable variety from the raw 

 beef, butter, and honey, which we had lived upon hitherto, 



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