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ing the mountain. The province of Woggora begins at 
Macara; it is all plain, and reckoned the granary of Gondar 
on this fide, although the name would denote no fuch 
thing, for Woggora fignifies the foxy, or rocky province. 
THE mountains of Lafta and Beleffen bound our view to 
the fouth; the hills of Gondar on the 8. W.; and all Wog- 
gora lies open before us to the fouth, covered, as I have faid 
before, with grain. But the wheat of Woggora is not good, 
owing probably to the height of that province. It makes 
an indifferent bread, and is much lefs efteemed than that 
of Foggora and Dembea, low, flat provinces, fheltered with 
hills, that lie upon the fide of the lake Tzana. 
On the 12th we left Macara at feven in the morning, ftill 
travelling through the plain of Woggora. At half paft 
feven faw two villages called Erba Tenfa, one of them a mile 
diftant, the other half a mile on the N. W. At eight o’clock 
we came to Woken, five villages not two hundred yards di- 
fiant from one another. At a quarter paft eight we faw 
five other villages to the 8. W. called Warrar, from one to 
four miles diftant, all between the points of eaft and fouth. 
The country now grows inconceivably populous ; vaft flocks 
of cattle of all kinds feed on every fide, having large and 
beautiful horns, exceedingly wide, and boffes upon their. 
backs like camels ; their colour is moftly black. 
AT a quarter paft eight we paffed Arena, a village on our 
left. At nine we paffed the river Girama, which runs N. 
N. W. and terminates the diftrictt of Lamalmon, beginning 
that of Giram. At ten the church of St George remained 
on our right, one mile from us; we croffed a river called 
: Shimbra 
