THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 621 
the plain of Afhoa about 300 feet below the level of the 
ground. where the mountain of Geefh ftands, at the very 
‘foot of which is the marfh wherein are the fources of the 
river.. 
Acain, neither Sacala nor Geefh are on the wett fide of 
Gojam, nor approach to thefe directions; as, firft the high 
mountains. of Litchambara, then the ftill higher of Amid 
Amid, are to be crofled over, before you reach Gojam from 
Sacala; and afterdefcending from that high barrier of moun- 
tains called Amid Amid, you come into the province of Da- 
mot, when the whole breadth of that province is ftill be- 
tween you and the weft part of Gojam. Thefe are miftakes 
which it is almoft impoflible to make, when a man is up- 
on the fpot, in the midft of a whole army, every one. ca- 
pable, and furely willing (as he was a favourite of the king 
to give him every fort of information; nor was there proba- 
bly any one there who would not have thought himfelf 
honoured to have been employed to fetch.a fraw for him. 
from.the top of. Amid Amid.. | 
Boru the number and fituations of the fountains, and the 
fituations of the mountain and village of Geefh with refpect 
to them, are therefore abfolutely falfe, as the reader will ob- — 
ferve in attending to my narrative and the map. This rela- 
tion of Paez’s was in my hand the sth of November, when 
Ifurveyed thefe fountains, andall.the places adjacent. Imea- 
fured all his diftances with a gunter’s chain in my own hand, 
and found every one of them to be imaginary; and thefe 
meafures fo taken, as alfo the journal now fubmitted to the 
public, were fairly and fully written the fame day that 
they were made, before the clofe of each evening. 
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