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what they consider to be error, when it has more 

 the appearance of truth, than have the theories 

 which they can only advance in opposition. 



The Abiah, which is almost denied to exist by 

 one traveller, and taken into remote countries by 

 another, I believe to be the main branch of the 

 Gibbee, and have accordingly so laid it down in 

 the sketch map of the different water-sheds of 

 Abyssinia I have projected to assist me in explain- 

 ing my ideas upon the subject. 



I will not, as I am almost tempted, recapitulate 

 the evidences that the Gibbee, the Abiah, and 

 the ancient Assabi, are one and the same river, and 

 the principal branch of the Abyssinian Nile ; for 

 if that which I have said is not sufficient to 

 convince ; to continue would only be to fatigue the 

 reader with suppositions, probabilities, and beliefs, 

 that would still, in the end, leave the subject in 

 quite as unsatisfactory a state as it remains at 

 present. 



