644 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Nec contigit ulli ; vey Ne 
Hoc vidiffe caput y: 
And again, | 
Nec licuit populis parvum te, Nile, videres. 
Here, at the ford; after having ftepped over it fifty times;. 
I obferved it no larger than a common mill ftream. The: 
Nile, from. this ford, turns to the weftward, and, after run- 
ning over loofe {tones oceafionally, in that direction, about 
four miles farther, the angle of inclination increafing great- 
ly, broken water, and. a fall commences of about fix feet, 
and thus it gets rid of the mountainous place of its nativity,. 
and. iffues- into the plain of Goutto, where is its firft cata- 
ract; for, as I have faid before, I don’t account the broken: 
water, or little falls, cataracts, which are not at all vifible in: 
the height of the rains.. 
ARRivED in the plain of Goutto, the river feems to have: 
loft all its violence, and fcarcely is feen to flow, but, at the. 
fame time, it there makes fo many fharp, unnatural wind- 
ings, that it differs from any other river I ever faw, making: 
above twenty fharp angular peninfulas in the courfe of five: 
miles, through a bare, marfhy plain of clay, quite deftitute 
ef trees, and exceedingly inconvenient and unpleafant: to: 
travel. After paffing this plain, it turns due north, receives: 
the tribute of many fmall ftreams, the Gometti, the Goo-- 
gueri, and the Kebezza, which defcend from the mountains: 
ot Aformafha; and, united, fall into the Nile about twenty, 
miles below its fource ; it begins here to run rapidly, and. 
again receives a number of beautiful rivulets, which have 
their rife in the heights of Litchambara, the femi-circular. 
range of mountains that pafs behind, and feem to inclofe. 
: Aformafha:: 
