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had now begun to run ; its courfe N. E. and S. W. acrofs the plain, after which it falls into the lake Tzana.
At two we halted at Correva, a fmall village, beautifully fuuated on a gentle-rifing ground, through which the road panes in view of the lake, and then again divides ; one branch continuing fouth to Emfras, and fo on to Foggora and Dara; the other to Mitraha, two fmall iflands in the lake, lying S. W. from this at the diftance of about four hours journey. The road from Correva to Emfras, for the firft hour, is all in the plain ; for the fecond, along the gentle flope of a mountain of no confiderable height ; and the re- mainder is upon a perfect flat, or along the lake Tzana,
The 5th of April, at five in the morning, we left our pre- fent nation at Correva, where, though we had employed fe- deral hours in the fearch, we found very little remarkable of either plants or trees, being moflly of the kind we had already feen. We continued our road chiefly to the fouth, through the fame fort of country, till we came to the foot of a mountain, or rather a hill, covered with bufhes and thorny trees, chiefly the common acacia, but of no fize, and feeming not to thrive. I pitched my tent here to fearch what that cover would produce. There were a great quan- tity of hares, which I could make no ufe of, the Abyflinians holding them in abhorrence, as thinking them unclean ; bu< to make amends, I found great ftore of Guinea fowls, of the common grey kind we have in Europe, of which I mot, in a little time, above a fcore ; and thefe, being perfectly lawful food, proved a very agreeable variety from the raw beef, butter, and honey, which we had lived upon hitherto,
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