TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA. 
In 1673, there was published in London, by 
the printer to the Royal Society, a " Short lle- 
" lation of the river Nile, by an eye witness, 
u translated out of the Portuguese by Sir Peter 
4 ' Wyche." This has been generally supposed to 
be an extract from Lobo's manuscript, and bears 
some marks of it ; but it differs from the account 
found in his travels. In this relation, the two 
springs are compared to two eyes, and said to be 
each about the size of a coach wheel. They " rise 
" in a little field covered with green and thick 
" wood. Travellers, and especially horsemen, are 
" easily convinced, that this ground stands in the 
" water, from its trembling and hollow sound. 
" This field is lost in a lake, where 'tis under water. 
" This plain is on the top of a high mountain, over- 
" looking many spacious valleys, and from this 
" height insensibly descends. From the middle of 
" this descent is seen, near a trench entangled with 
" shrubs, the bigger of these springs, whose bottom 
" is not to be reached with a lance of five and 
" twenty palms, which, by the way, meets with 
" (as is guessed) the roots of the neighbouring 
" shrubs, so hindering further passage ; the other 
" spring is to be fathomed at sixteen palms/ ' At 
little more than two days' journey from its head, 
the Nile is said to become so deep, that vessels may 
sail in it. Immediately after it is so contracted 
between rocks that it may be stepped over. After 
