THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. “| ae 
country. Several new fpecies appeared, with five, nine, eleven 
petals, and plenty of the agam with four, thefe being all 
white. We found alfo large bufhes of yellow, and orange 
and yellow jeffamin, befides fine trees of kummel, and the 
boha, both of the largeft fize, beautifully covered with fruit 
and flowers, which we never before had feen. 
We now defcended into a plain called Selech lecha, the 
village of that name being two miles eaft of us. The country 
here has an air of gaiety and chearfulnefs {uperior to any 
thing we had ever yet feen. Poncet* was right when he 
compared it to the moft beauteous part of Provence. We 
crofled the plain through hedge-rows of flowering fhrubs, 
among which the honeyfuckle now made a principal figure, 
which is of one fpecies only, the fame known in England; 
but the flower is larger and perfectly white, not coloured on 
the outfide as our honeyfuckle is. Fine trees of all fizes. 
were everywhere interfperfed; and the vine, with fmall 
black grapes of very good flavour, hung in many places in 
feftoons, joining tree to tree, as if they had been artificially 
twined and intended for arbours. 
_ Arrer having paffed this plain, we again entered a clofe 
country through defiles between mountains, thick covered 
with wood gnd bufhes. We pitched our tent by the water- 
fide judicioufly enough as travellers, being quite furrounded 
with bufhes, which prevented us from being fen 1 im any- 
direction. 
* Poneet’s voyage to. Ethiopia, p. 99, - 
