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ground defcends likewife with a very eafy tho' perceptible flope from the large village of Sacala, which gives its name to that territory; it is diftant fix miles from the fource, but; to fight,. feems fcarcely to be two.

I sahll fuppofe the fharp point of the triangle cornpo- fed of the hypothenufe and the perpendicular, to point like the needle of a compafs to Sacala, and the line of the hypothenufe to reprefent the fouth fide of the marfii near the village Geeih. The bafe, or line, uniting the weft end of the hypothenufe, and forming the right angle with the other fide, I fuppofe to be the edge of the marfh. formed by the bottom of the mountain of Geelh, and 'from this weft fide of it rifes this high and beautiful mountain, quite de- tached from others, like a pyramid, which it refembles in its elegant and regular form. It is about 4870 feet high meafured in the flope ; for near one half way the afcent is very eafy and gradual. The bafe being of a remarkable breadth, it then becomes exceedingly fteep, but all the way covered with good earth, producing fine grafs and clover 3 interfperfed with wild flowers.

Upon the rock in the middle of this plain, the Agows ufed to pile up the bones of the beafts killed in facrifice, mixing them with billets of wood, after which they fet them on fire. This is now difcontinued, or rather transfer- red to another place near the church, as they are at prefent indulged in the full enjoyment of their idolatrous rites s both under Falil and Michael.

In the middle of this marfh (that is about forty yatds from each fide of it) and fome thing lefs from the bottom

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