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along the fide of it Kafmati Fafil palled after his defeat st Fa- 

 gitta. The mountains which form the eaft fide of this plain 

 run parallel to the former in their whole courfe, an I arfe 

 part of, or at lead join the mountains of Litchambara, and 

 thefe two, when behind Aformama, turn to the fouth, and 

 then to the S. \V. taking the fame form as they do, only- 

 making a greater curve, and inclofing them likewife in the 

 form of a crefcent, the extremity of which terminates im- 

 mediately above the fmall lake Gooderoo, in the plain of 

 Affoa, below Geefh, and directly at the fountains of the 

 Nile. 



The river Abola comes out of the valley between thefe 

 two ridges of mountains of Litchambara and Aformama, 

 but does not rife there ; it has two branches, one of which 

 hath its fource in the weftern fide of Litchambara, near the 

 center of the curve where the mountains turn fouth ; the o- 

 ther branch rifes on the mountain of Aformama, and the 

 eaft fide of our road as we afcended to the church of Mari- 

 am. Still behind thefe are the mountains of Amid Amid, 

 another ridge which begin behind Samfeen, in the S. W. 

 part of the province of Maitfha, though they become high 

 only from the mountain of Adama, but they are in fhape 

 exactly like the former ridges, embracing them in a large 

 curve in the fhape .of a crefcent. 



Between Amid Amid and the ridge of Litchambara is 

 the deep valley now known by the name of St George ; 

 what was its ancient, or Pagan name, I could not learn. 

 Through the middle of this valley runs the Jemma, a river 

 equal to the Nile, if not larger, but infinitely more rapid: 

 after leaving the valley, it croiies that part of Maitfha on 

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