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At nine o'clock, after palling a plain, with the lake Tzana 

 all the way on our right, in length about three miles, we 

 came to the banks of the river Gorno, a fmall but clear 

 fiream ; it rifes near Wechne, and has a bridge of one arch 

 over it about half a mile above the ford. Its courfe is north 

 and fouth nearly, and lofes itfelf in the lake between 

 Mitraha and Lamgue. A mile farther we arrived at Em- 

 fras, after a very pleafant, though not interefling excur~- 

 fion. 



The town is fituated on a deep hill, and the way up to it- 

 is almoft perpendicular like the afcent of a ladder. The 

 houfes are all placed about the middle of the hill, fronting 

 the weft, in number about 300. Above thefe houfes are 

 gardens, or rather fields, full of trees and bufhes, without 

 any fort of order, up to the very top. Emfras commands a 

 view of the whole lake, and part of the country on the 

 other fide. It was once a royal refidence. On a fmall hill 

 is a houfe of HatzeHannes, in form of a fquare tower, now 

 going fail to ruin, 



Emfras is in lat. 12 12' 38" N. and long. 37° 38' 30""' 

 E. of the meridian of Greenwich. The distances and direc- 

 tions of this journey from Gondar were carefully obferved 

 by a compafs, and computed by a watch of Ellicot's, after 

 which thefe fituations were checked by aftronomical ob- 

 iervations of latitude and longitude in every way that they 

 could be taken, and it was very feklom in a day's journey 

 that we erred a mile in our computation. 



The lake of Tzana is by much the largeft expanfe of wa- 

 ter, known in that country. Its extent, however, has been: 



4. greatly. 



