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And about twenty feet diftant from the firft, to the S. S. W. 

 is the third fource, its mouth being fomething more than 

 two feet large, and it is five feet eight inches deep. Both 

 thefe lafl fountains Hand in the middle of fmall altars, 

 made, like the former, of firm fod, but neither of them above 

 three feet diameter, and having a foot of lefs elevation than 

 the firft. The altar in this third fource feemed almofl 

 riiflblved by the water, which in both flood nearly up to 

 the brim ; at the foot of each appeared a clear and brifk 

 running rill ; thefe uniting joined the water in the trench 

 of the firft altar, and then proceeded directly out, I fup- 

 pofe, at the point of the triangle, pointing eaftward, in a 

 quantity that would have filled a pipe of about two inches 

 diameter. 



The water from thefe fountains is very light and good, 

 and perfectly taftelefs ; it was at this time mofl intenfely 

 cold, though expofed to the mid-day fun without fhelter 4 

 there being no trees nor bufhes nearer it than the cliff of 

 Ceefh on its fouth fide, and the trees that furround Saint 

 Michael Geefh on the north, which, at\iording to the cuftom 

 of Abyffinia, is, like other churches, planted in the midft of a 

 grove. 



On Monday the 5th of November, the day after my ar- 

 rival at Geefh, the weather perfectly clear, cloudlefs, and 

 nearly calm, in all refpects well adapted to obfervation, 

 being extremely anxious to afcertain, beyond the power of 

 controverfy, the precife fpot on the globe that this foun- 

 tain had fo long occupied unknown, I pitched my tent on 

 the north edge of the cliff, immediately above the prieft's 

 houfe, having verified the inilrumcnt with all the care pof- 

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