14. «== TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
and was the fafeft and readieft fupply for the army, as: 
being perfectly under command of our mufquets, where 
our horfes could water without danger: immediately fouth 
from this.ran a valley full half a mile broad, bits ended: 
in a large plain about two miles off.. 
Tue valley where Michael and the van firft engaged, was: - 
formed by the hills of Beleffen on the eaft, and the river Ma 
riam on the wett, and near the middle-of the valley there: 
was a low and flat-topt hill, not above 30 yards in height, 
which did: not join. with. the hill of: Serbraxos.. Between 
them there was an opening of about 100. yards, through 
which ran Deg-Ohha, to the ford of the river Mariam, from 
which you afcended ina direction: nearly N. W. up into the 
plain which reached to the lake Tzana. On the-fouth end 
of this hill, as I have faid, which: might have: been about 
two miles in length, the banks of the Mariam are very 
high, and the river ftands in large ‘deep pools, with banks 
of fand between them. Where this hill ends to the right 
is another ford of the river Mariam, where a deep and nar+ 
_ row fandy road: goes winding up the banks, in.a direGtion 
N. W. like the former, and leads to the fame plain.border- 
ing on the lake Tzana:: fo that. the plain of the valley 
where the Mariam runs, which is bordered by the foot of 
the mountains: of Beleffen, and:continues along the plain. 
fouth to Tangouré, is near 200 feet lower than:the plain 
that extends on-the fide of the lake Tzana. Nor is there a. 
convenient accefs from.the plain to the valley, at leaft that. 
I faw, by reafon ofthe height and fteepnefs of the banks of 
the Mariam, excepting thefe two already mentioned ; one 
between. the extremity of the long even hill, and flope of © 
the mountain on the north, and. the other. on the fouth, 
through 
