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arrived at Axum, they fhould feck a fhip to carry them 
back again to Zeyla, 3co miles eaftward, when they were 
then going to Gondar, not much above a hundred miles 
weft of Axum. This feems to me abfolutely impofiible to 
explain. . | 
STILL, however, another difficulty remains; Tigré is faid, 
by the Jefuits, and by M. Le Grande their hiftorian, to be 
_ full of mountains, fo high that the Alps and Appenines 
were very inconfiderable in comparifon. And fuppofe it 
was otherwife, there is no navigable river, indeed no river 
at all, that runs through Tigré into the Red Sea, and there 
is the defert of Samhar to pafs, where there is no water at 
all. How is it poffible a fhip from the coaft of Malabar 
fhould get up 200 miles from any fea among the moun- 
tains of Tigré? | hope the publifher will compare this with 
any map he pleafes, and correct it in his: errata, otherwife 
his narrative is unintelligible, unlefs all this was intended 
_ to be placed to the account of miracles—Peter walked upon 
the water, and Lobo the Jefuit failed upon dry land. 
Dr Jouwnson, or his publifher, involves his reader ina 
another ftrange perplexity. _“ Dancala is a-city of Africa in 
Upper Ethiopia, upon the Nile, in the’ tract of Nubia, of 
which it is the capital ;” and the emperor wrote, “that the 
miffionaries might eafily enter his dominions by the way of 
Dancala*.” It is very difficult to underftand how people, in 
a fhip from India, could enter Abyflinia by the way of Dan- 
cala, if that city is upon the Nile; becaufe no where, that I 
V. 111. r know, 
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