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On the ^i{\i of December we left our ftation at the head 

 < of a difficult pafs called Coy Gulgulet, or the Defcent of 



Coy, at the i^oot of which runs the river Coy, one of the 

 ' largeft we had yet feen, but I did not difcern any fifli in it. 



Here we refted a little to refrefli ourfelves and our beads, 

 -after the fatigues we had met with in defcending throu^^h 



this pafs. 



At half after eight we came to the banks of the Germa, 

 ■which winds along the valley, and falls into the Angrab. 

 ^After having continued fome time by the fide of the Germa, 

 -and crolTed it going N. W. we, at ten, pafTcd he fmall river 

 Idola; and half an hour after came to Deber, a houfc of Ay- 

 to Confu, on the top of a mountain, by the Me of a fmall 

 :river of that n-ame. The country here is partly in wood, 

 and partly in plantations of dora. It is very well watered 

 and feems to produce abundant crops ; but it is not beau- 

 tiful ; the foil is red earth, and the bottoms of all the ri- 

 vers foft and earthy, the water heavy, and generally ill-tafted, 

 even in the large rivers, fach as the Coy and the Germa. I 

 imagine there is fome mineral in the red earth, with a 

 proportion of which the water is impregnated. 



At Deber, I obferved the following bearings from the 

 mountains ; Ras el Feel was weft, Tcherkin N. N. W. Debi a 

 Haria, north. We found nobody at Deber that could give 

 •us the leaft account of Ayto Confu. We left it, therefore, on 

 the morning of the ift of January 1772. At half paft ten 

 o'clock we paffed a fmall village called Dembic, and about 

 mid- day came to the large river Tchema, which falls into 

 the larger river Dwang, below, to the weftward. About 

 an hour after, we came to the Mogetch, a river not fo large 

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