58 PERSONAL NARRATIVE. 



of Tigre. Every day, indeed, as we marched through 

 these beautiful highlands, new kinds of birds and animals 

 were noticed. But little could be collected, as there was 

 no time to hunt for specimens. 



The camp at Fokada was beautifully situated at the 

 south side of the great trachyte hill, and at the head of 

 a deep ravine in the sandstone leading to the eastward, 

 the resort of many lammergeyers, eagles, vultures, and 

 kites. Corvultur was also common. On the next day I 

 marched to Adigrat. The road lies along the eastern 

 scarp of the Harat range, and is, for the greater part of 

 the distance, upon basalt, the band of sandstone being at 

 a lower level ; but there is a descent to the sandstone 

 again before reaching Adigrat. To the east are the 

 visual deep valleys between hills capped with sandstone ; 

 to the west rise the massive spurs of the great Harat 

 range. 



Time did not allow of my exploring the Harat hills, 

 either when marching to Magdala or when returning, and 

 I could only examine the lower portions. These con- 

 sist of basalt alone, frequently amygdaloidal, in well- 

 marked horizontal beds, the terracing so characteristic of 

 trap rocks being most strongly marked, even more so 

 than in the trap ranges of Western India. From my 

 subsequent experience of the ranges in Lasta, I have but 

 little doubt that the upper portions of the Harat hiUs are 

 largely composed of trachjrte flows, and many of these 

 appear to be of great thickness. One, forming a cap 

 with perpendicular sides on the top of the two highest 

 peaks of the whole range, — the ambas, or hill forts, of 



