Oye, TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Gojam, a country deluged with fix months rain, this 
tree would not grow; though fo much farther fouth 
it is near two Englifh miles higher than Atbara, and is 
therefore too cold. Such are my reafons for believing that 
Gojam cannot be Meroé. In my return through the defert 
I fhall confirm this, by proving that Atbara is Meroé, and 
that we are to look for it about lat. 16° 29’, near the-end of 
the tropical rains. , | 
Tue Nile, now united with the Aftaboras, takes its courfe 
ftraight north for more than two degrees of the meridian; 
it then makes a very unexpected turn W. by S. confiderably 
more than that fpace in longitude, winding very little till it 
arrives at Korti, the firft town in the Barabra, or kingdom of 
Dongola. The river by this time, with three fides, inclofed the 
great deferts of Bahiouda the road through this from Dereira 
to Korti (before it was cut off by the Arabs, as ir now con- 
tinues to be) made the fourth fide of the fquare which 
bound this defert; by this route it was that Poncet and the 
unfortunate M. du Roule went to Abyffinia. 
From Korti the Nile runs almoft S. W. where it paffes 
Dongola, a country of the Shepherds, called alfo Beja, the 
capital of Barabra, and comes to Mofcho, a confiderable 
town, and welcome place of refrefhment to the weary tra- 
veller, when the caravans were fuffered to pafs from Egypt 
into Kthiopia, who, after traverfing the dreary defert of Seli- 
‘ma for near 500 miles, found himfelf at Mofcho, in repofe, in 
the enjoyment of plenty of frefh water, long ago become to 
him an indulgence more delcious than ever he had be- 
fore conceived. From Mofcho the Nile turns gradually to 
the N, E, and in lat. 22° 15’ it meets with a chain of moun-_ 
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