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“gr the midft of their harveft, but there were fome places, to 
which the water could be conducted, where the corn was 
jut appearing out of the ground. From Googue we have 
an extenfive view of the lake Tzana, whilft the mountains 
‘of Begemder and Karoota, that is, all the ridge along Fog- 
gora, appear diftinclly enough, but _ are funk low, and 
near the horizon. / 
i On the r4th, at three quarters paft feven in the morning, 
we left the inhofpitable village Googue; our road lay N. 
by W.up a {mall hill. At half paft eight we croffed the vil- 
lage of Azzadari, in which runs a fmall river, then almoft 
ftagnant, of the fame name. At three quarters after eight, 
the church of Turcon Abbo, being a quarter of a mile to 
-ourright: At three quarters after nine we pafled the river 
Avolai, coming from N. W. and which, with all the other 
ftreams above mentioned, fall into the lake: from this be- 
gins Degwafla. At half paft ten we refted half an hour. 
At eleven continued our journey N. by W. and, at half after 
eleven, entered again into the great road of Buré, by Kelti. 
- All the country from Googue is bare, unpleafant, wnwhole-. 
fome, and ill-watered.. Thofe few ftreams it has are now 
ftanding in pools, and are probably ftagnant in January and 
February. The people, too, are more mifer _ than in any 
other part of Maittha and Goutto. 
As we are now leaving Maittha, it will be the place to 
fay fomething concerning itin particular. Maitfha is either 
proper, or what is called fo by extenfion. Maitfha Proper is 
bounded on the weft by the Nile, on the fouth by the re 
ver Jemma, dividing it from Goutto; and, on the other 
fide of Amid Amid, by the province of Damot; on the fouth 
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