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Ir is not eafy to conceive what fpecies of information 
Paez intends to convey to us by the obfervation he makes 
lower, “ That the water, which found way at the foot of 
the mountain, did not flow at the top of it.” It would have 
been very fingular if it had; arid I fully believe that a 
mountain voiding the water at its top, when it had freé ac- 
cefs to run out at its bottom,-would have been one of the 
moft curious things the two Jefuits could ever have feen 
in any voyage. But what mountain is it he is {peaking of? 
he has never named any one, but has faid the Nile was fi- 
~tuated in the higheft part of a plain. I cannot think he 
means by this that the higheft part of a plain is a moun- 
tain; if he does, it is a fpecies of defcription which would 
need af interpreter. He fays again, the mountain is full 
of water, and trembles; and that there is a village below 
the top of the mountain, on the mountain itfelf, This Ine 
ver faw; they muff have cold and flippery quarters in that 
mountain, or whatever it is; and if he means the moun- 
tain of Geeth, there is not a village within a quarter a mile 
of it. The village of Geefh is in the middle of a high cliff, 
defcending into the plain of-Afhoa. The bottom of that 
cliff or plain is 300 feet, as I have already faid, below the 
bafe of the mountain of Geefh, and the place where the 
fountains rife. 
Parz next fays, that it is three miles from that village 
of Geeth to the fountains of the Nile. Now, as my quadrant 
was placed in my tent, on the brink of the cliff of Geeth, 
it was neceffary for me to meafure that diftance; and by al- 
lowing for it to reduce my obfervations to the exact fpot 
where the fources refe, I did accordingly with a chain- 
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