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ground defcends likewife with a very eafy tho' perceptible 

 flope from the large village of Sacala, which gives its name 

 to that territory; it is diftant fix miles from the fource, but; 

 to fight,. feems fcarcely to be two. 



I sahll fuppofe the fharp point of the triangle cornpo- 

 fed of the hypothenufe and the perpendicular, to point 

 like the needle of a compafs to Sacala, and the line of the 

 hypothenufe to reprefent the fouth fide of the marfii near 

 the village Geeih. The bafe, or line, uniting the weft end 

 of the hypothenufe, and forming the right angle with the 

 other fide, I fuppofe to be the edge of the marfh. formed by 

 the bottom of the mountain of Geelh, and 'from this weft 

 fide of it rifes this high and beautiful mountain, quite de- 

 tached from others, like a pyramid, which it refembles in 

 its elegant and regular form. It is about 4870 feet high 

 meafured in the flope ; for near one half way the afcent is 

 very eafy and gradual. The bafe being of a remarkable 

 breadth, it then becomes exceedingly fteep, but all the way 

 covered with good earth, producing fine grafs and clover 3 

 interfperfed with wild flowers. 



Upon the rock in the middle of this plain, the Agows 

 ufed to pile up the bones of the beafts killed in facrifice, 

 mixing them with billets of wood, after which they fet 

 them on fire. This is now difcontinued, or rather transfer- 

 red to another place near the church, as they are at prefent 

 indulged in the full enjoyment of their idolatrous rites s 

 both under Falil and Michael. 



In the middle of this marfh (that is about forty yatds 

 from each fide of it) and fome thing lefs from the bottom 



of 



