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Besipes the dignity attending this office, it was alfo one 
of the moft lucrative. Frankincenfe, myrrh, and a fpecies 
of cinnamon, called by the Italians Cannella, with feveral 
kinds of gums and dyes, all very precious, from Cape 
Gardefan to Bilur, were the valuable produce of this coun- 
try: but this territory, though confiderable in length, is not 
of any great breadth; for, from fouth of Hadea to Mafuah, 
it confifts in a belt feldom above forty miles from the fea, 
which is bounded by a ridge of very high mountains, run-. 
ning parallel to the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, as far- 
as Mafuah. 
,AFTER Azab begin the mines of foffile falt, which, cut: 
into fquare, folid bricks of about a foot long, ferve in: 
place of the filver currency in Abyflinia; and from this,, 
as from a kind of mint, great benefit accrues alfo.. 
From Mafuah the fame narrow belt continues to Suakem ;. 
nay, indeed, though the rains do not reach fo far, the 
mountains continue to the fthmus of Suez. This northern 
province of the Baharnagafh is called the Habab, or the- 
land of the Agaazi, or Shepherds ; they fpeak one language, 
which they. call Geez, or the language of the Agaazi. From 
the earlieft times, they have had letters and writing among 
them ; and no other has ever been introduced into Abyflinia;, 
to this day, as we have already obferved. . 
Since the expulfion of the Turks from Dobarwa and the: 
eontinent of Abyfflinia, Mafuah has been governed by a: 
Naybe, himfelf one of the Shepherds, but Mahometan. A. 
treaty formerly fubfifted, that the king fhould receive half of: 
: the: 
