THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 289 
On the 31ft of December we left our ftation at the head 
of a difficult pafs called Coy Gulgulet, or the Defcent of 
Coy, at the foot of which runs the river Coy, one of the 
largeft we had yet feen, but I did not difcern any fith in it. 
Here we refted a little to refrefh ourfelves and our beatts, 
after the fatigues we had met with in defcending through 
this pafs. 
Ar half after eight we came to the banks of the Germa, 
which winds along the valley, and falls into the Angrab. 
After having contintied fome time by the fide of the Germa, 
and croffed it going N. W. we, at ten, paffed the {mall river 
Idola; and half an hour after came to Deber, a houfe of Ay- 
‘to Confu, on the top of a mountain, by the fide of a fmall 
river of thatname. The country here is partly in wood, 
‘and partly in plantations ofdora. It is very well watered, 
and feems to produce abundant crops; but it is not beau- 
tiful; the foil is red earth, and the bottoms of all the ri- 
vers foft and earthy, the water heavy, and generally ill-tafted, 
seven in the large rivers, fuch as the Coy and the Germa. I 
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imagine there is fome mineral in ‘the red earth, ira a 
*proportion of which the water is impregnated. 
‘Ar Deber, 1 obferved the following bearings from the 
"mountains; Ras el Feel was weft, Tcherkin N. N. W. Debra 
Haria, north. We found nobody at Deber that could give 
us the leaft account of Ayto Confu. We left it, thercfore, on 
the morning of the rft of January 1772. At half paft ten 
o'clock we paffed a fmall village called Dembic,-and about 
mid-day came to the large river Tchema, which falls into 
the larger river Dwang, below, to the weftward. About 
an hour after, we came to the Mogetch, a river not fo large 
Vor. IV. Oo as. 
