V52 TRAVELS TO:DISCOVER 
CHAP. VL 
Fourney from Siré to Addergey, and Tranfattions there. 
; HE province of Siré, properly fo called, reaches from. 
Axum to:the Tacazze. The town of Siré is fituated on 
the brink of a very fteep, narrow valley, and through this 
the road lies which is almoft impaffable. In the midft of 
this valley runs a brook bordered with palm-trees, fome of 
which are grown to a confiderable fize, but bear no fruit; 
they were the firft we had feen in Abyffinia. 
Tue town of Siré is larger than that of Axum; it is in 
form of a half-moon fronting the plain, but its greateft 
breadth is at the weft end; all the houfes are of clay, and 
thatched ; the roofs are in form of cones, as, indeed, are all 
in Abyffinia. Siré is famous for a manufacture of coarfe cot- 
ton cloths, which pafs for current money through all the 
province of Tigré, and are valued at a.drachm, the tenth- 
“part of a wakea of gold, or near the value of an imperial 
aallar each; their breadth is a yard and quarter. Befides 
2 thefe 
