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Lhad paffed, or which I had feen at a {mall diftance out of: 
the road, to which I may add every river, an immenfe num-. 
ber of which I had croffed between Gondar and Geefh,. 
whither I was going. The reader, upon. the. infpection of 
‘this {mall map, will form fome, but a very inadequate idea. 
of the immenfe labour: it coft me:. However, the refult, 
when I arrived at Gondar, amply rewarded me-for my pains, | 
upon comparing my route by the compafs, to what it came 
to be when afcertained by obfervation ;,1 found my error of. 
computation upen the whole to be fomething more than g. 
miles in latitude, and very nearly. 7 in longitude; an-error 
not perceptible in the journey upon any reduced fcale, and. 
very immaterial to all purpofes of geography .in any large: 
one. . 
Now Peter Paez; or any man laying claim to a difcovery- 
fo long and {fo ardently. defired, fhould. furely have done ‘the - 
fame; efpecially as from Gorgora. he had little more than: 
half of the journal to keep... But if it- were true, that he - 
made the difcovery: which Kircher attributes to him, ftill, , 
for want of this neceflary attention, he has left the-world in .. 
the darkKnefs he found it; he travelled like-a thief, difcover-. 
ed that fecret fource, and took. a peep at it, then covered it: 
again as.if he had been affrightened at the-fight of it... 
Lupo and Voflius are very merry, without mentioning: 
names, with this ftory of. the difcovery,,which they think 
Kircher.makes..for Peter Paez; whom they call the River 
Finder: they fay, it is extremely laughable to think, that the 
emperor of Abyflinia brought a Jefuit of Europe to be the 
antiquary of his country, and to inftruct him firft, that the 
fountains of. the Nile.were.in his dominions, and in what 
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