608 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER | 
Summus Alexander regum, quem Memphis adorat, 
Invidit Nilo, mifitque per ultima terre 
LEthiopum lettos » illos rubicunda perufli 
Zona poli tenuit, Nilum videre calentem. 
| Lucan. 
TueEsE Ethiopians, parting from their temple in the de- 
fort of Elvah, or Oafis, or, which will come to the fame thing, 
from the banks of the Nile, or Thebes, would hold nearly 
the fame courfe as Poncet had done, till they fell in with 
the Nile about Mofcho in the kingdom of Dongola; they 
would continue the fame route till they came to Halfaia, 
where the Bahar el Abiad (or white river) joins the Nile 
at Hojila, five miles above that town; and, to avoid the 
mountains of Kuara, they would continue on the weft fide 
of the Nile, between it and the Bahar el Abiad ; and, keep- 
_ ing the Nile clofe on their left, they would follow its direc- 
tion fouth to the mountains of Fazuclo, through countries 
where its courfe muft neceflarily be known. After having 
paffed the great chain of mountains, called Dyre and Tegla, © 
between lat. 11° and 12° N. where are the great cataracts, 
they again came intothe flat country of the Gongas, as far as 
Bizamo, nearly in g° N. there the river, leaving its hitherto 
conftant direction, N. and S. turns due E. and furrounds 
Gojam, | 
Iv is probable the difcoverers, always looking for it to the 
fouth, took this unnfualfudden turn eaft to beonly a wind- 
ing of the river, which would foon be compenfated by an 
equal return to the wef where they would meet.it again ; 
they therefore continuedtheirjourney fouth, tillnear theline, 
and never faw'it more, as they could have no poffible notion 
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