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and foon after a fmaller, called Ghelghel Derma. In the 

 afternoon, at a quarter paft three, we pafTed another river, 

 called Gavi-Corra ; thefe, like the others, all point as radii 

 to the center of the lake, in which they empty themfelves. 

 A little before four o'clock we encamped on the fide of the 

 river Kemona. Upon the hill, on the other fide of the river, 

 ftands the village of that name; it was full of cattle, very 

 few of which we had feen during the fore-part of the jour- 

 ney ; we had all that day travelled fix hours and a quarter, 

 which we computed not to exceed 14 miles : the reafon of 

 this flownefs was the weight of my quadrant, which, though 

 divided into two, required four men to carry it, tied upon 

 bamboo, as upon two chair-poles. The time- keeper and 

 two telefcopes employed two men more. We pitched our 

 tent on the fide of the river, oppofite to the village, and there 

 palled the night. 



On the 29th of October, at feven in the morning, we left 

 our ftation, the river Kemona ; our direction was W. S. W. 

 after, about an hour, we came to a church called Abba 

 Abraham, and a village that goes by the fame name ; it is 

 immediately upon the road on the left hand. At the diftance 

 of about a mile are ten or twelve villages, all belonging to 

 the Abuna, and called Ghendi, where many of his predecef- 

 fors have been buried. The low, hot, unwholefome, woody 

 part of the Abyffinian Kolla, and the feverifh, barren pro- 

 vince of Walkayt, lay at the diftance of about fourteen or 

 fixteen miles on our right. We had been hitherto amend- 

 ing a gentle rifing-ground in a very indifferent country, 

 the fides of the hill being fkirted with little rugged wood, and 

 full of fprings, which join as they run down to the low coun- 

 try of Walkayt. We faw before us a fmall hill called Guarre, 



which. 



