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CHAP, X. 
Geographical Divifion of Abyffinia into Provinces. 
T Mafuah, that is, on the coaft of the Red Sea, begins 
an imaginary divifion of Abyflinia into two, which is 
rather a divifion of language than ftrictly to be underftood 
as territorial. The firft divifion is called Tigré, between the — 
Red Sea and the river Tacazzé. Between that river and the 
Nile, wettward, where it bounds the cone it is called Am- 
bara. 
WHATEVER convenience there may be from this divifion, 
there is neither geographical nor hiftorical precifion in it, 
for there are many little provinces included in the firft that 
do not belong to Tigré; and, in the fecond divifion, which 
is Amhara, that ee gives the name is but a very fmall 
part of it. 
AGAIN, 
