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This fever prevailed in Abyflinia in all low grounds and 

 plains, in the neighbourhood of all rivers which run in val- 

 leys ; it is really a malignant tertian, which, however, has 

 fo many forms and modes of intermiflion that it is impoffi- 

 ble for one not of the Faculty to defcribe it. It is not in all 

 places equally dangerous, but on the banks and neighbour- 

 hood of the Tacazze it is particularly fatal. The valley 

 where that river runs is very low and fultry, being full of 

 large trees. In Kuara, too, it is very mortal ; in Beleflen 

 and Dembea lefs fo ; in Walkayt it is dangerous ; but not 

 fo much in Tzegade, Kolla, Woggora, and Waldubba. It 

 does not prevail in high grounds or mountains, or in pla- 

 ces much expofed to the air. This fever is called Ne- 

 dad, or burning ; it begins always with a fliivering and 

 headach, a heavy eye, and inclination to vomit ; a violent 

 heat follows, which leaves little intermiilion, and ends ge- 

 nerally in death the third or fifth day. In the lail flage of 

 the diilemper the belly fwells to an enormous fize, or fome- 

 times immediately after death, and the body within an in- 

 flant fmells mofl infupportably; to prevent which they bury 

 the corpfe immediately after the breath is out, and often 

 within the hour. The face has a remarkable yellow ap- 

 pearance, with a blackifli caft, as in the laft ftage of a drop- 

 fy or the atrophy. This fever begins immediately with the 

 fun-fliine, after the firft rains, that is, while there are inter- 

 vals of rain and fun-fliine : it ceafes upon the earth being 

 thoroughly foaked in July and Awguft, and begins again 

 in September; but now, at the' beginning of November, it 

 finally ceafes everywhere. 



The country about Googue is both fertile and pleafant, 



all laid out in wheat, and the grain good. They were now 



I in 



