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 THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 645

Aformafha: Thefe are the Caccino, the Carnachiuli, the Googueri, the Iworra, the Jeddeli, and the Minch, all which, running into the Davola, join the Nile fomething lefs than a mile weft of the church of Abbo,

It is now become a confiderable ftream ; its banks high and broken, covered with old timber trees for the fpace of about three miles; it inclines to the north-eaft, and winds ex- ceedingly, and is then joined by the fmall river Diwa from the eaft. It then makes a femi-circle, and receives Dee-ohha, turns fharply to the eaft, and falls down its fecond cataract at Kerr. About three miles below this cataract, the large, pleafant, and limpid Jemma pays its tribute to the Nik. Though its courfe is now moftly north, through Mait- flia on the eaft, and Aroofli and Sankraber on the weft, it ftill is inclining toward the lake Tzana, and, after recei- ving the rivers Boha and Amlac Ohha, fmall ftreams from the weft, and the Affar, Aroofli, and Kelti, large rivers from the eaft, it croffes the fouth end of the lake Tzana for about feven leagues, preferving the colour of its ftream diftinet from that of the lake, till it iflues out at the weft fide of it in the territory of Dara, where there is a ford, though very deep and dangerous, immediately where it firft re- fumes the appearance of a river..

The deep ftream is here exceedingly rapid; the banks in the courfe of a few miles beccme very high, and are co- vered with a verdure, abundant and varied beyond all de- fcription : palling afterwards below Dara, it bounds that narrow ftripe of flat country which is called Foggora, con- fined between the lake and the mountains ofBegemder, tiil it arrives at its third cataract 01" Alata, a fmall village of Maho- 4 jaiei.-.ms>