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2 INTRODUCTION.
3 Baagush chief)* with «even or eight hundred match-lock mmt dress-
4 ed in blue. Thh place was in the plain of Cohaut, whidi is a circle
5 of atipat twehre miles in diameter. The hills aFoand were varied and
6 pictuFaKjue; and those above the town of Cohaut were ooreMd
7 with siiow^ The plain -was green, and well watered, and there wieie
8 Httle groves up and down its face. The climate was delightful. Snow
9 never lies long on the lower hills about Cohaut, and had not fallen in
10 the plain for some years: ihi> fruitii and flowers: of rlimates were
11 said to be prcxiuced in the plain. We reacheii t oiiaut on tlie next
12 day. It was a neat town, and hm\ a little fort on an artificial mound,
13 which had been ruined ni a struggle for the chiefship, that was scarce-
14 ly settled when we were there. Near the town runs a stream, as clear
15 as chrystal, which issues from three fountains, and is first collected in
16 a reservoir, not far below. It is hot in winter, and ( < >ki in summer.
17 Tlie chief accompanied us to sec these springs ; and tlicu left us to
18 breakfast, on excellent butter, milk, eggs, and honey, whicli he had
19 provided in great plenty. He also piesenled me widi a box of moo-
20 meed or mammjt made at G)|]jHit. It was of the Idnd called moo*
21 meea maadenee or mummy of the mine. It is made fimn a sort of
22 stone, which is bofled in water ; asfter bebg rediioed to powder, an oil
23 ioats on the top, which hardens into a substance of the appeaianoe
24 and consistence df ooaL It is a &mou8 medicine throughout all the
25 East, and is said to operate almost miraculous cures of fractures.
26 Here we found a garden, wfaidi aflbrded us peat <l#light, thouglh pcii-
27 •haps a portion of its charms consisted in its abounding in ^^gUfh
28 pLmtB, from which we had been long estranged in the dimate of Ko-
29 dia. Their beauty was rather augmented than diminished in our
30 eyes, by their being out of leaf, and putting frvrth new buds. The
31 garden spr^d along the bank of the stream I have described. It was
32 enclosed by a hedge, full of wild raspberry and bladcberry bushel^
33 and contained plum and peach trees in full blossom, weeping wilknn^
34 and plane trees in leaf, together with apple trees, and many others
35 that ronld not he di'^tinguished from having lost their foliage. There
36 were also numerous fine vines, as thick as a man's 1^ twisted xound
37 Digitized by GoQgle