386 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
At nine o’clock, after pafling a plain, with the lake Tzane 
all the way on our right, in length about three miles, we 
came to the banks of the river Gorno, a fmall but clear 
{tream ; it rifes near Wechne, and has a bridge of one arch 
over it about halfa mile above the ford. Its courfe is north 
and fouth nearly, and lofes itfelf in the lake between 
Mitraha and Lamgue. A mile farther we arrived at Em- 
fras, after a very pleafant, though not interefting excur- 
fion. 
Tue town is fituated on a fteep hill, and the way up to it 
is almo& perpendicular like the afcent of a. ladder. : The 
houfes are all placed about the middle of the hill, fronting 
the weft, in number about 300. Above thefe houfes are- 
gardens, or rather fields, full of trees and bufhes, without 
any fort of order, up to the very top. Emfras commands a. | 
view of the whole lake, and part of the country on the © 
other fide. It was once a royal refidence. Ona fmall hilk: 
is a houfe of Hatzé Hannes, in form. of a fquare tower, now. 
going faft to ruin. 
Emrras is in lat. 12° 12’ 38” N: and long. 37° 38’ 307" 
E, of the meridian of Greenwich. The diftances and direc- 
tions of this journey from Gondar were carefully obferved 
by a compafs, and computed by a watch of Ellicot’s, after 
which thefe fituations were: checked: by aftronomical ob- 
fervations of latitude and longitude in every way that they 
could be taken, and it was very feldom in a day’s journey 
that we erred a mile in our computation. 
TueE lake of Tzana is by much the largeft expanfe of wa- 
ter Known in that country. Its extent, however, has been 
4 greatly. 
