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part of them. But, with Voffius’s leave, this is a {pecies of 
intemperate ill-founded criticifm ; neither Kircher, nor Paez, 
nor whoever was author of that work, ever faid they in- 
~ ftructed the emperor about the place in his dominions where 
the Nile arofe, as what he fays is only that the Agows of | 
Geefh reported that the mountain trembled in dry weather, 
and had done fo that year, when the emperor, who was 
prefent, confirmed the Agow’s report: this is not faying that 
Peter Paez told the emperor encamped with his army upon 
the fountains, that the Nile rofe in his dominions, and that 
this was the fource. Wo be to the works of Scaliger, Bo- 
chart, or Voflius, when they fhall, in their turn, be fubmitted 
to fuch criticifm as this. 
A ProrEsTANT miflion was the next, that I know of at 
Jeaft, which fucceeded that of the Portuguefe, and confifted 
only of one traveller, Peter Heyling, of Lubec although 
he lived in the country, nay, governed it feveral years, he 
never attempted to vifit the fource of that river; he had de- 
-dicated himfelf to a ftudious and folitary life, having, a- 
mong other'parts of his reading, a very competent know- 
ledge of Roman, or civil law; he is faid to have given a 
great deal of his time to the compiling an inflitute of that 
Jaw in the Abyfflinian language for the ufe of that nation, 
‘upon a plan he had brought from Germany; but he did not 
‘live'to finith it, though that and two other books, written in 
Geez, full exiftin private hands in Abyflinia, at leaft I have , 
‘been often confidently told fo. 
Tue next and laft ‘attempt I fhall take notice of, and one 
of the moft extraordinary that ever was made for the dif _ 
covery of the Nile, was that of a German nobleman, Peter 
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