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nifhed with thefe bafkets, having numerous hives of bees at 

 work in them ; the people themfelves feemed not to heed 

 them, but they were an excemve plague to us by their flings 

 during the day, fo that it was only when we were out in 

 the fields, or at night in the houfe, that we were free from 

 this inconvenience. 



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The high mountain of Berfa now bore fouth from us a>- 

 bout ten miles diftant ; it refembles, in fhape, a gunner's 

 wedge, and towers up to the very clouds amidft the lefler 

 mountains of the Agow. Sacala is fouth fouth-eaft. The 

 country of the Agows extends from Berfa on the fouth to 

 the point of due weft, in form of an amphitheatre, formed 

 all round by mountains, of which- that of Banja lies fouth 

 fouth- weft about nine miles off. The country of the Shan- 

 galla, beyond the Agows, lies weft north- weft. From this 

 point all the territory of Goutto is full of villages, in which 

 the fathers, fons, and grandfons live together ; each degree, 

 indeed, in a feparate houfe, but near or touching each other, 

 as in Maitfha, fo that every village confifts of one family. 



At three quarters paft eight we crofted a fmall, but clear 

 river, called Dee-ohha,or the River Dee. It is fingular to ob- 

 ferve the agreement of names of rivers in different parts of 

 the world, that have never had communication together. 

 The Dee is a river in the north of Scotland. The Dee runs 

 through Chefhire likewife in England ; and Dee is a river 

 here in Abyflinia. Kelti is the name of a river in Monteith ; 

 Kelti, too, we found in Maitfha. Arno is a well-known ri- 

 ver in Tufcany ; and we found another Arno, below Emfras, 

 falling into the lake Tzana. Not one of thefe rivers, as far 

 as I could obferve, refemble each other in any one circum- 

 2 fiance, 



