47° TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 
I brought from Abyfiinia, lived only a few weeks after Iar- 
rived. They feemed to have fome imward complaint, for 
nothing appeared outwardly. The dogs had abundance of 
water, but I killed one of them from apprehenfion of mad- 
nefs. Several kings have tried to keep lions, but'no care 
could prolong their lives ‘beyond. the ‘firft rains. \Shekh. 
Adelan had two, which were in great health, being kept with 
his horfes at grafs in the fands but three miles from Sennaar: 
neither rofe, nor any fpecies of jeflamin, grow here; no tree 
but the lemon flowers near the city, that ever I faw; the rofe 
has been often tried) ‘but imwvaml?) cco? Yasin ee 
SENNAAR is in lat. 13° 34’ 36” north, and in long: 33° 30’ 30” 
eaft from the meridian of Greenwich. It is on the weft fide 
of the Nile, and clofe upon the banks of it. ‘The ground 
whereon it ftands rifes juft enough to prevent the river 
from entering the town, even in the height of the inunda- 
tion, when it comes to be even with the ftreet.  Poncet fays, 
that when he was at this city, his companion, father Bre- 
vedent, a Jefuit, an able mathematician, on the ait of 
March 1699, determined the latitude of Sennaar to be 13° 
4-N. the difference therefore will be about half a degree. 
The reader however may implicitly rely upon the fituation 
I have given it, being the mean refult of above fifty obfer- 
vations, made both night and day, on the moft favourable 
‘occafions, by a quadrant of three feet radius, and telefcopes 
of two, and fometimes of three feet focal length, eine re- 
flectors and refractors made by the beft matters. 
Tue town of Sennaar is'very pdysdindlas there vite in it 
many good houfes after the fafhion of the country. Poncet 
fays, in his time they were all of one ftorey high ; but now 
3 the | 
