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to north, but it foon turns to the north-eaft, and, after flowing 
five or fix miles, joins the Nile and lofes itfelf in that river. 
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IMMEDIATELY below this ford ae: the Affar is a magnificent: 
cafcade, or cataract. I computed the perpendicular height 
of the fall to be above 20 feet, and the breadth of the ftream 
to be fomething more than 8; but it is fo clofely covered 
with trees or bufhes,and the ground fo uneven, that it needs. 
great perfeverance and atteation to approach it nearly with. 
fafety ; the ftream covers the rock without leaving any 
part of it vifible, and the whole river falls uninterrupted: 
down with an incredible violence and noife, without being 
anyway broken or divided ; below this cataract it becomes. 
confiderably narrower, and, as we have faid, in this ftate 1 runs. 
on to join the Nile.. 
Tue ftrength of vegetation which the moifture of this: 
river produces, fupported by the action of a very warm fun,, 
is fuch as one might naturaily expect from theory, though 
we cannot help being furprifed atthe effects when we fee 
them before us, trees and fhrubs covered’ with flowers of . 
every colour, all new and’ extraordinary in their fhapes,. 
crowded with birds of many uncouth forms, all of them: 
richly adorned with variety of plumage,.and feeming to fix. 
their refidence upon the banks of this river, without a de- 
fire of wandering to any diftance in the neighbouring fields = 
But as there is nothing, though ever fo beautiful, that has. 
not fome defect or imperfection, among all thefe feathered’ 
beauties there is not one fongfter ; and, unlefs. of the rofe,, 
er jeffamin kind, none of their flowers have any {mell; we 
hear indeed many fqualling noify birds of the jay kind, and’ 
we findtwo varieties of wild rofes, white and yellow, to which. 
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