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fome operation, though we fucceeded at laft. I often regret-- 

 ted to Woldo, that he could not here find fome of the good 

 people like the Agows at the ford of the Nile ; but he fhook 

 his head, faying, Thefe are another fort of ftufF; we maybe 

 very thankful if they let us pafs ourfelves : in the flat coun- 

 try I do not wifh to meet one man on this fide the moun- 

 tain Aforrnafha. 



In this plain, the Nile winds' more in the fpace of four 

 miles than, I believe, any river in the world; it makes above 

 a hundred turns in that diftance, one of which advances fo 

 abruptly into the plain that we concluded we mufl pafs it, 

 and were preparing accordingly, when we faw it make as 

 fharp a turn to the right, and run far on in a contrary di- 

 rection, as if we were never to have met it again : the Nile 

 is not here above 20 feet broadband is nowhere above a foot 

 deep. The church of Yafous was above three quarters of a 

 mile to the weft. 



At one o'clock we afcended a ridge of low hills which 

 terminates this plain to the fouth. The mountains behind 

 them are called Attata ; they are covered thick with brufh- 

 wood, and are cut through with gullies and beds of tor- 

 rents. At half paft one we were continuing S. E.; in a few 

 minutes after we palled a clear but fmall \ ftream, called 

 Minch, which fignifies the Fountain. At two o'clock we 

 arrived at the top of the mountain of Attata, and from this 

 dilcovered the river Abola coming from the S..S..E. and in ; 

 a few minutes paflcd another fmall river called Giddili, 

 which lofes itfelf immediately in a turn, or elbow, which 

 the river Abola makes here below. At half pad two we de- 

 fended the mountain of Attata,, and immediately at the 



foot . 



