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ferent and extraordinary fhapes ; fome are ftraight like co- 
Jumns, and fome fharp in the point, and broad in the bafe, 
like pyramids and obelifks, and fome like cones. All thefe, 
for the moft part inacceffible, unlefs with pain and danger 
to thofe that know the paths, are places of refuge and. fafe- 
ty in time of war, and are agreeably feparated from each 
other by fmall plains producing grain. Some of thefe, 
however, have at the top water and {mall flats that can be 
fown, fufficient to maintain a number of men, independent 
‘of what is doing below them.. Hauza. fignifies delight, or 
pleafure, and, probably, fuch a fituation of the country has 
given the name to it.. It is chiefly inhabited by Mahome- 
tan merchants, is the entre-ot between: Mafuah and Gon- 
_dar, and there are here people of very confiderable fubftance.. 
Tue 3joth, at feven in the morning, we left Angari, keep- 
ing along the fide of the river. We then afcended a high 
hill covered with grafs and trees, through a-very difficult 
and fteep. road; which ending, we came to a {mall and a- 
greeable plain, with pleafant hills on each fide ; this is cal- 
led Mentefegla. At half paft feven we were in the middle of 
three villages of the fame name, two to the right and one 
on the left,. about half a mile diftanee.. At half paft. nine 
we pafled a {mall river called Daracoy,. which ferves as the 
boundary between Addergey and this fmall diftrict Men- 
tefegla. Ata quarter’ paft ten, we incamped at Addergey,. 
near a {mall rivulet called Mai-Lumi, the river of limes, 
or lemons, in a plain fcarce a mile fquare, furrounded 
en each fide with very thick wood in form of an am- 
-phitheatre. Above this wood, are bare, rugged, and bar- 
ren mountains. Midway in the cliff is a miferable vil- 
-lage, that feems rather to hang than to ftand there, {carce 
a yard 
