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runs. We have many rivers of this quality in the Alps, e- 
{pecially between mount Cenis and Grenoble.’ 
DevivereD now from the flrait and rugged country on the 
banks of the Mogetch, we entered into a very extenfive plain, 
bounded on the eaft fide by the mountains, and on the weft by 
the large lake of Dembea, otherwife called the lake Tzana, 
or Bahar Tzana, the Sea of Tzana, which geographers have 
corrupted into the word Barcena. Rejoiced at laft that I 
had elbow-room, I began the moft laborious fearch for 
fhrubs and herbs all over the plain, my fervants on one 
fide and I on the other, fearching the country on each fide 
of the road. I: appeared to our warm imaginations, that 
the neighbourhood of fuch a lake, in fo remote a part of 
the world, ought infallibly to produce fomething perfectly 
beautiful, or altogether new. In this, however, we were 
difappointed, as indeed we always were in meadows, and 
where grafs grew fo exuberantly as it did all over this 
plain. 
Art eleven o’clock we croffed the river Tedda; here the 
road divides: that branch to the eaft leads to Wechne, in 
the wild, uncultivated territory of Beleflen, famous for no 
production but that of honey. ~ 
We continued along the other branch of the road, which 
led fouth to Emfras. One mile diftant on our left is the 
church of St George. About one o’clock we halted at the 
church Zingetch Mariam; and a few minutes after, we 
paffed the river Gomara, a confiderable ftream rifing in Be- 
leffen, which flands in pools during the dry weather, but 
had 
