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CHAP. V. 
Arrive at Adowa-——Reception there—Vifit Fremona and Ruins of Axum 
Arrive at Siré,. 
DOWA is fituated on the declivity of a hill, on the weft 
fide of a {mall plain furrounded everywhere by moun- 
tains. Its fituation accounts for its name, which fignifies 
pafs, or paffage, being placed on the flat ground immediately 
below Ribieraini; the pafs through which every body muft 
go in their way from Gondar to the Red Sea. 
Tus plain is watered by three rivulets which are never 
dry in the midft of fummer; the Affla, which we crofs juft 
below the town when coming from the eaftward; the Mai 
Gogua, which runs below the hill whereon ftands the vil- 
Jage of the fame name formerly, though now it is called 
Fremona, from the monaftery of the Jefuits built there ; and 
the Ribieraini, which, joining with the other two, falls. 
anto the river Mareb, about 22 miles below Adowa. There 
are fith in thefe three flreams, but none of them remarkable 
f - ‘ ; ; for 
