18s TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
this obfervation, Taguzait, or Guza, though: really the bafe, 
of Lamalmon, is not a quarter of a mile high. 
TEN minutes before nine o’clock ~we pitched our tent 
on a {mall plain called Dippebaha, on the top of the moun- 
tain, above a hundred .yards:from a f{pring, which fcarcely 
‘was abundant enough to fupply us with water, in quality 
as indifferent as it.was fcanty. The plain bore ftrong 
marks of the exceflive heat of the fun, being full of cracks 
and chafms, and the grafs burnt to powder. There are 
three {mall villages fo near each other that they may be 
faid to. compofe one. Near them is the church of St George, 
on the:top of a fmall hill to the eaftward, furrounded with 
large: trees. 
‘SrncE paffing the Tacazze we had been in a very wild 
country, left fo, for what I know, by nature, at leaft now 
lately rendered more fo by being the theatre of civil war. 
The whole was one wildernefs without inhabitants, unlefs 
at Addergey. The plain of Dippebaha had nothing of this. 
appearance; it was full of grafs, and interfperfed with 
flowering fhrubs, jeflamin, and rofes, feveral kinds of which 
were beautiful, but only one fragrant. The air was very 
frefh and pleafant; anda great number of people, pafling 
to and fro, animated the fcene. 
We met this day feveral monks and nuns of Waldubba, I 
fhould fay fairs, for they were two and two together. 
‘They faid they had been at the market of Dobarké on the 
- fide of Lamalmon, juft above Dippebaha. Both men and 
avomen, but efpecially the latter, had large burdens of 
provifions on their fhoulders, bought that day, as they 
faid, 
