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lad now begun to run; its courfe N. E. and S. W. acrofs the 
plain, after which it falls into the lake Tzana. . 
At two we halted at Correva, a {mall village, beautifully 
fituated on a gentle-rifing ground, through which the road 
paffes in view of the lake, and then again divides ; one 
branch continuing fouth to Emfras, and fo on to Foggora 
and Dara; the other to Mitraha, two {mall iflands in the 
lake, lying S. W. from this at the diftance of about four 
hours journey. The road from Correva to Emfras, for the 
firft hour, is all in the plain ; for the fecond, along the gentle 
flope of a mountain of no confiderable height ; and the re- 
mainder is upon a perfect flat, or along the lake Tzana. 
‘Tue 5th of April, at five in the morning, we left our pre- 
fent ftation at Correva, where, though we had employed fe- 
veral hours in the fearch, we found very little remarkable 
of either plants or trees, being moftly of the kind we had 
already feen. We continued our road chiefly to the fouth, 
through the fame fort of country, till we came to the foot 
of a mountain, or rather a hill, covered with bufhes and 
thorny trees, chiefly the common acacia, but of no fize, and 
feeming not to thrive. I pitched my tent here to fearch 
what that cover would produce. There were a great quan- 
tity of hares, which I could make no ufe of, the Abyflinians 
holding them in abhorrence, as thinking them unclean; 
but, to make amends, I found great flore of Guinea fowls, 
of the common grey kind we have in Europe, of which I 
fhot, in a little time, above a {core ; and thefe, being perfectly 
lawful food, proved a very agreeable variety from the raw 
beef, butter, and honey, which we had lived upon hitherto, 
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