582 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
along the fide of it Kafmati Fafil paffed after his defeat at Fa-_ 
gitta. The mountains which form the eaft fide of this plain © 
run parallel to the former in their whole courfe, and are 
part of, or at leaft join the mountains of Litchambara, and 
thefe two, when behind Aformafha, turn to the fouth, and © 
then to the S$. W. taking the fame form as they do, only 
making a greater curve, and inclofing them likewife in the 
form of a crefcent, the extremity of which terminates im- 
mediately above the {mall lake Gooderoo, in the plain of | 
Affoa, below Geefh, and cine at the fountains of the 
Nile. 
Tue river Abola comes out of the valley between thefe 
two ridges of mountains of Litchambara and Aformatha, 
but does not rife there; it has two branches, one of which 
hath its fource in the weftern fide of Litchambara, near the 
center of the curve where the mountains turn fouth; the o- 
ther branch rifes on the mountain of Aformafha, and the 
eaft fide of our road as we afcended to the church of Mari- 
am. Still behind thefe are the mountains of Amid Amid, 
another ridge which begin behind Samfeen, in the 8. W. 
part of the province of Maitfha, though they become high 
only from the mountain of Adama, but they are in fhape 
exactly ike the former ridges, embracing them in a large 
‘curve in the fhape of a crefcent. 
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Brrwren Amid Amid and the ridge of Litchambara is 
the deep valley now known by the name of St George; 
what was its ancient, or Pagan name, I could not learn. 
Through the middle of this valley runs the Jemma, a river 
equal to the Nile, if not larger, but infinitely more rapid:. 
after leaving the valley, it eboities that part of Maitfha on 
