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ground defcends likewife with a very eafy tho’ perceptible 
flope from the large village of Sacala, which gives its name 
to that territory; it is diftant fix miles from the fouree, get 
to fi fight, feems {carcely to be two. 
I saurt fuppofe the fharp point of the triangle compo- 
fed of the hypothenufe and the perpendicular, to point 
like the needle of a compafs to Sacala, and the line of the 
hypothenufe to reprefent the fouth fide of the marfh near 
the village Geefh. The bafe, or line, uniting the weft end 
of the hypothenufe, and forming the right angle with the 
other fide, I fuppofe to be the edge of the marfh formed by 
the bottom of the mountain of Geefh, and from this weft 
fide of it rifes this high and beautiful mountain, quite de- 
tached from others, like a pyramid, which it refembles in 
its elegant and regular form. It is about 4870 feet high 
meafured in the flope; for near one half way the afcent is _ 
very eafy and gradual. The bafe being: of a remarkable 
breadth, it then becomes exceedingly fteep, but all the way: 
covered with good earth, producing fine gr afs and sais 
interfperfed with wild flowers.. 
Upon the rock inthe middle of this plain, the Agows: 
ufed to pile up the bones. of the beafts killed in facrifice,, 
mixing them with billets of wood, after which they fet 
them on fire. This is now difcontinued, or rather transfer-. 
red to another place near the church, as they are at prefent 
indulged in the full enjoyment of their idolatrous ails 
both under Fafil and Michael, 
In the middle of this marth (that is about forty yards 
from each fide of it) and fomething lefs from the bottom. 
