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ly beaten Fafil, and forced him to retire to the other fide of 
the Nile, and was then in Maitfha, where it was thought he 
would remain with the army all the rainy feafon, ‘This 
was juft what I could have wifhed, as it brought.me at 
once to the neighbourhood of the fources of the Nile, with-. 
out the fmalleft fhadow of fear or danger. 
On the gth of February; at feven o'clock, we took:leave of 
the friends whom we had fo newly acquired-at Lamalmon, 
all of us equally joyful and happy at the news. We began 
to afcend what ftill remained of the mountain,which, though 
fteep and full of bufhes, was much lefs: difficult than that 
which we had paffed. At a quarter paft feven we arrived 
at the top of Lamalmon, which has, from below, the appear- 
ance of being fharp-pointed. On the contrary, we were. %. 
much furprifed to find there a large plain, part. in pafture,~ 
but more bearing grain. It is full of {prings, and feems to 
be the great refervoir from whence arife moft of the rivers 
that. water this part of. Abyffinia.. A multitude of ftreams 
iffae from the very fummit in all directions; the {prings boil 
out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning.a 
mill. They plow, fow, and reap here at all feafons; and 
the hufbandman muft blame his own indolence, and not 
the foil, if he has not three harvefts.. We faw, in one place, 
people bufy cutting down wheat; immediately next to it, 
others at the plough; and the adjoining field had green corn 
in the ear; a little further, it was not an inch above the: 
ground. 
Lamatmon is on the N. W. part of the mountains of Sas- 
men. That of Gingerohha, with two pointed tops, joins it 
on.the north, and ends thefe mountains here, and. is fepara- 
ted! 
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