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fome operation, though we fucceeded at laft.. I often regret= 
ted to Woldo, that he could not here find fome of the good: 
people like the Agows at the ford of the Nile; but he fhook. 
his head, faying, Thefe are another fort of ftuff; we maybe - 
very thankful if they lec us pafs ourfelves:.in the flat coun-. 
try Ido not wifh. to meet one man on. this fide the moun-. 
tain Aformatfha. 
In this plain, the Nile winds more in the fpace of four~ 
miles than,!I believe, any river in the world; it-makes above- 
a hundred turns in that diftance, one of which advances fo: 
abruptly into the plain that we concluded we mutt pafs it, 
and were preparing. accordingly, when we faw it make as. 
fharp a turn to the right, and run: far on-in a-contrary- di 
rection, as if we were never to have met it again: the Nile: 
is not here above 20 feet broad, and is nowhere above a foot: 
deep.. The church of Yafous was above. three q@iarters pine @i 
mile to the weft. 
Ar one o’clock we afcended a ridge of low hills which: 
rerminates this plain to the fouth. The mountains behind! 
them are called Attata; they are covered thick: with brufh- 
wood, and are cut through with gullies and beds. of tor-- 
rents. At half paft.one we were continuing:S.. E.; in afew 
minutes after we pafled a clear but fmall ftream, called, 
Minch, which fignifies the Fountain. At two o'clock we: 
arrived at the top of the mountain of Attata, and from this: 
difcovered the river Abola coming from the S. §. E..and in: 
a. few minutes pafled another. fmall river. called. Giddili,, — 
which lofes itfelf immediately in a. turn, or elbow, which: — 
the river Abola makes here below. ‘At half paft two we de- 
fcended.the mountain of. Attata, and immediately at the: 
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