THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 198 
‘THE sth, at feven o'clock in the morning, we left Debra 
Toon, and came to the edge of a-deep valley bordered with 
wood, the defcent of which is very fteep. The Anzo, larger 
and more rapid than the Angueah, runs through the middle 
of this valley; its bed is full of large, {mooth ‘tones, and 
the fides compofed of hard rock, and difficult to defcend ; the 
ftream is equally clear and rapid with the other. We af- 
cended the valley on the other fide, through the moft diffi. 
cult road we had met with fince that of the valley of Siré. 
At ten o’clock we found ourfelves in the middle of three 
villages, two to the right, and one on the left; they are 
called Adamara, from Adama a mountain, on the eaft fide 
of which is Tchober. At eleven o’clock we encamped at the 
foot of the mountain Adama, in a {mall piece of level ground, 
after pafling a pleafant wood of no confiderable extent. 
Adama, in Amharic, fignifies pleafant; and nothing can be 
more wildly fo than the view from this ftation. 
TcHoser 1s clofe at the foot-of the mountain, furround- 
‘ed on every fide, except the north, by-a-deep valley covered 
‘with wood. On the other fide of this valley are the broken 
hills which conftitute the rugged banks of the Anzo. On 
«he point of one of thefe, moft extravagantly fhaped, is the 
village Shahagaanah, projecting as it were over the river; 
and, behind thefe, the irregular and broken mountains of 
Salent appear, efpecially thofearound Hauza, in forms which 
European mountains never wear; and ftill higher, above 
thefe, is the long ridge of Samen, which run along in an 
even ftretch till they are interrupted by the high conical 
sop of Lamalmon, reaching above the clouds, and reckoned 
#0 be the higheft hill in Abyflinia, over the fteepeft part or 
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