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nearer Gondar. Here again we met with trees, (fmall ones 
indeed) but the firft we had feen fince leaving Lamalmon, 
excepting the ufual groves of cedars. It is the Virginia 
cedar, or oxy-cedros, in this country called drz, with which 
their churches are conftantly furrounded. 
On the rsth, at ten ‘minutes pait feven, we began to af- 
cend the mountain; and, at twenty minutes after feven, 
paffed a village on our left. At feven and three quarters we 
paffled Tiba and Mariam, two churches, the one on our right, 
the other on our left, about half a mile diftant; and near 
- them feveral fmall villages, inhabited by Falafha, mafons 
and thatchers of houfes, employed at Gondar. At half pait 
eight we came to the village Tocutcho, and, in a quarter 
of an hour, pafled the river of that name, and in a few mi- 
‘nutes refted on the river Angrab, about -half .a mile from 
Gondar. 
Tcuacassa is the laft of the many little diftrias which,’ 
together, compofe Woggora, generally underftood to be de- 
pendent on Samen, though often, from the turbulent fpirit 
of its chiefs, ftruggling for independency, as at the prefent 
time, but fure to pay for it immediately after. In fad, 
though large, it is too near Gondar to be fuffered to conti- 
nue in rebellion; and, being rich and well cultivated, 
it derives its fupport from the capital, as being the mart of 
its produce. It is certainly one of the fruitfuleft provinces 
in Abyffinia, but the inhabitants are miferably poor, not- 
withftanding their threefold harvefts. Whereas, in Egypt, 
beholden to this country alone for its fertility, one moderate 
harveft gives plenty evcrywhere, 
Bb2 WoGGORA 
