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nifhed with thefe bafkets, having numerous hives of bees at 
work in them; the people themfelves feemed' not to heed 
them, but they were an exceflive plague to us by their flings 
during the day, fo that it was only when we were out in 
the fields, or at night in the houfe, that we were free from: 
this inconvenience.. 
‘Tue high mountain of Berfa now bore fouth from us a+ . 
bout ten miles diftant; it refembles, in fhape, a gunner’s. 
wedge, and towers up to the very clouds amidft the leffer 
mountains of the Agow. Sacala is fouth fouth-eaft. The 
country. of the Agows extends from: Berfa on the fouth to: 
the point of due weft, in form of an amphitheatre, formed’ 
all round by mountains, of which that of Banja lies fouth ~ 
fouth-weft about nine miles off. The country of the Shan- 
galla, beyond. the Agows, lies weft north-weft. From this 
point all the territory of Goutto is full of villages,in which 
the fathers, fons, and grandfons live together; each degree,, 
indeed, in a feparate houfe, but near or touching each other, 
as in Maitfha, fo. that every village confifts of one family. 
Ar three quarters paft eight we crofled a fmall, but clear 
river, called Dee-ohha, or the River Dee. It is fingular to ob- 
ferve the agreement of names of rivers in different parts of 
the world, that have never had communication together. 
The Dee is a river in the north of Scotland, ‘Fhe Dee runs. 
through Chefhire likewife in England; and Dee is a river 
here in Abyflinia. Kelti is thename of a river in Monteith ;_ 
. Kelti, too, we found in Maitfha. Arno is a well-known ri- 
ver in Tufcany ; and we found another Arno, below Emfras, ’ 
falling into the lake Tzana. Not one of thefe rivers, as far 
as I could obferve, refemble each other in any one circum- 
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