386 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER
At nine o'clock, after palling a plain, with the lake Tzana all the way on our right, in length about three miles, we came to the banks of the river Gorno, a fmall but clear fiream ; it rifes near Wechne, and has a bridge of one arch over it about half a mile above the ford. Its courfe is north and fouth nearly, and lofes itfelf in the lake between Mitraha and Lamgue. A mile farther we arrived at Em- fras, after a very pleafant, though not interefling excur~- fion.
The town is fituated on a deep hill, and the way up to it- is almoft perpendicular like the afcent of a ladder. The houfes are all placed about the middle of the hill, fronting the weft, in number about 300. Above thefe houfes are gardens, or rather fields, full of trees and bufhes, without any fort of order, up to the very top. Emfras commands a view of the whole lake, and part of the country on the other fide. It was once a royal refidence. On a fmall hill is a houfe of HatzeHannes, in form of a fquare tower, now going fail to ruin,
Emfras is in lat. 12 12' 38" N. and long. 37° 38' 30""' E. of the meridian of Greenwich. The distances and direc- tions of this journey from Gondar were carefully obferved by a compafs, and computed by a watch of Ellicot's, after which thefe fituations were checked by aftronomical ob- iervations of latitude and longitude in every way that they could be taken, and it was very feklom in a day's journey that we erred a mile in our computation.
The lake of Tzana is by much the largeft expanfe of wa- ter, known in that country. Its extent, however, has been:
4. greatly.
