■Si6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



I had parted, or which I had feen at a fmall diflance out of; 

 the road, to which I may add every river, an immenfe num- 

 ber oF which I had crofled between Gondar and Gee(li > 

 whither I was going. The reader, upon the infpection or' 

 this fmall map, will form fome, but a very inadequate idea 

 of the immenfe labour it colt me : However, the remit, 

 when I arrived at Gondar, amply rewarded me for my pains, 

 upon comparing my route by the compafs, to what it came 

 to be when afcertained by obfervation ; I found my error of 

 computation upon the whole to be fomething more than 9 

 miles in latitude, and very nearly 7 in longitude ; an error 

 not perceptible in the journey upon any reduced fcale, and 

 very immaterial to all purpofes of geography in any large 

 one. 



Now Peter Paez, or any man laying claim to a difcovery 

 fo long and fo ardently defired, mould furely have done the 

 fame ; efpecially as from Gorgora he had little more than 

 half of the journal to keep. But if it were true, that he 

 made the difcovery which Kircher attributes to him, rtill, 

 for want of this neceiTary attention, he has left the world in 

 the darknefs he found it; he travelled like a thief, difcover- 

 ed that fecret fource, and took a peep at it, then covered it 

 again as if he had been afFrightened at the fight of it. 



Ludolf and Voflius are very merry, without mentioning 

 names, with this ftory of the difcovery, , which they think 

 Kircher makes for Peter Paez, whom they call the River 

 Finder: they fay, it is extremely laughable to think, that the 

 emperor of Abyflinia brought a Jefuit of Europe to be the 

 antiquary of his country, and to inftruc"t him firft, that the 

 fountains of the Nile were in his dominions, and in what 

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