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I brought from Abyflinia, lived only a few weeks after I ar- 

 rived. They feemed to have fome inward complaint, for 

 nothing appeared outwardly. The dogs had abundance of 

 water, but I killed one of them from apprehenfion of mad- 

 nefs. Several kings have tried to keep lions, but no care 

 could prolong their lives beyond the firft rains, Shekh 

 Adelan had two, which were in great health, being kept with 

 his horfes at grafs in the fands but three miles fromSennaar: 

 neither rofe, nor any fpecies of jeflamin, grow here ; no tree 

 but the lemon flowers near the city, that ever I faw ; the rofe 

 has been often tried, but in vain. 



Sennaar is in lat. 13° 34' 36" north, and in long. 33" 30' 30" 

 call from the meridian of Greenwich. It is on the well lide 

 of the Nile, and clofe upon the banks of it. The ground 

 whereon it ftands rifes juft enough to prevent the river 

 from entering the town, even in the height of the inunda- 

 tion, when it comes to be even with the Ilreet. Poncet fays, 

 that when he was at this city, his companion, father Bre- 

 vedent, a Jefuit, an able mathematician, on the 2 ill of 

 March 1699, determined the latitude of Sennaar to be 13° 

 4' N. the difference therefore will be about half a degree. 

 The reader however may implicitly rely upon the fituation 

 1 have given it, being the mean refult of above fifty obfer- 

 vations, made both night and day, on the mod favourable 

 occalions, by a quadrant of three feet radius, and telefcopes 

 of two, and fome times of three feet focal length, both re- 

 lledlors and refra6tors made by the beil matters. 



The town of Sennaar is very populous, there being in it 



many good houfes after the fafliion of the country. Poncet 



fays, in his time they were all of one ftorey high ; but now 



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