2,80 OBSERVATIONS ON MR. BRUCE'S 
to be where Mr. Salt has placed it, which I am the more anxious to 
put beyond controversy, as it is impossible to have equal evidence 
of the authenticity of the other parts of his map, and which also 
widely differ from Bruce, particularly in the distance between Adowa 
and Fremona. If, however, in the track from Massowah to Dixan 
Mr. Salt is proved to be accurate, I conceive that he is fairly intitled 
to credit, and that credit may be still more strongly corroborated 
by the positive evidence of gross errors in those by whom he is 
contradicted. In addition to the facts above stated respecting Zila, 
as laid down by Mr. Bruce on the sea shore, the account of Fremona, 
as given by him, will enable any person to judge of the credit due 
to his geographical observations. 
In the map, Fremona is laid down as distant thirty miles from 
Adowa, yet he himself visited it from that place, as he says, on the 
10th of January ; which seems to imply, that it was not so far off, 
as to require a journey to reach it, and describes it as situated " in 
the middle of a large plain, on the opposite side of which stands 
Adowa," which, if the distance be correct in the map, would make 
the plain extend for sixty miles in each situation! although in the. 
beginning of the same chapter he observes, that " Adowa is situated 
on the declivity of a hill, on the west side of a small plain, sur- 
rounded every where by mountains." In these two descriptions 
we again discover contradictions, which I believe no advocate of 
Mr. Bruce will attempt to reconcile ; but till it is done, I conceive 
I have a right to claim, that his assertions shall not be adduced as 
throwing any doubt on the accuracy of Mr. Salt's observations, 
Antalow, the limit of Mr. Salt's journey, is placed in 4 5', from 
several observations made by Mr. Carter, which was confirmed by 
