THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, os 
‘and as beautiful as the firft; but the night here was exceed- 
ingly cold, though the fun had been hot in the day-time. 
Our defire for water was, by this time, confiderably abated. 
We were everywhere furrounded by mountains, bleak, bare, 
black, and covered with loofe ftones, entirely deftitute of 
foil; and, befides this ey profpect, we faw nothing but 
the heavens, 
On the roth, at half paft fix in the morning, we left Sa- 
doon, our road {till winding between mountains in the bed, 
or torrent of a river, bordered on each fide. with rack and 
fycamore trees of a good fize. I thought them equal to the 
largeft trees I had ever feen; but upon ey and 
- roughly meafuring fome of them, I did not find one 7+ feet 
diameter; a {mail tree in comparifon of thofe tie (erie 
travellers have obferved, and much fmaller than I expected ; 
for here every caufe concurred that fhould make the 
growth of thefe large bodies exceffive. 
At half paft eight o’clock, we encamped at a place called 
- Tubbo, where the mountains are very fteep, and broken, 
very abruptly, ito cliffs and precipices. Tubbo was by 
much the moft agreeable flation we had feen; the trees 
were thick, full of leaves, and gave us abundance of very 
dark fhade. There was a number of many different kinds 
fo clofely planted that they feemed to be intended for na- 
turalarbours. Every tree was full of birds, variegated with 
an infinity of colours, but deftitute of feng; others, of a 
more homely and more European appearance, diverted us 
with a variety of wild notes, in a ftile of mufic full difting 
and peculiar to Africa ; as different in the compofition from 
our linnet and goldfinch, as our Englifh language is to that 
~ Vor. II. K of 
