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And about twenty feet diftant from the firft, to the’S. S. W. 
is the third fource, its mouth being fomething more than 
two feet large, and it is five feet cight inches deep. Both 
thefe laft fountains ftand in the middle of fmall altars, 
made, like the former, of firm fod, but neither of them above 
three feet diameter, and having a foot of lef{s elevation than — 
the firft. The altar in this third fource feemed almoft ~ 
diffolved by the water, which in both ftood nearly up to 
the brim; at the-foot of each appeared a clear and brifk 
running rill; thefe uniting joined the water in the trench 
of the firft altar, and then proceeded directly out, I fup- 
pote, at the point of the triangle, pointing eaftward, in a 
quantity that would have filled a pipe of about two ere 
diameter. 
Tur water from thefe fountains is very light and good, : 
and perfe@ly taftelefs ; it was at this time moft intenfely 
cold, though expofed to the mid-day fun without fhelter, 
there being no trees nor bufhes nearer it than the cliff of 
Geetfh on its fouth fide, and the trees that furround Saint 
Michael Geefh on the north, which, according to the cuftom 
of Abyfiinia, is, like other churches selene in the midft of a 
grove. 
On Monday the sth of November, the day after my ar- 
rival at Geefh, the weather perfectly clear, cloudlefs, and 
nearly calm, in all refpects well adapted to obfervation, 
being extremely anxious to afcertain, beyond the power of 
controverly, the precife fpot on the globe that this foun- 
tain had fo long occupied unknown, I “pictiad my tent on 
the north edge of the cliff, immediately above the prieft’s 
houfe, having verified the inflrument with all the care pot 
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