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| | A Confederate Soldier in Egypt: Appendix I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | The country bordering this lake is tropical in its vegetation, yielding the orange, lemon, lime, and banana ; and here, as well as far into the surrounding country, the products both of the temperate and tropic zones can be raised in abundance. |
 | | After passing through the rich cereal region of Abyssinia, you come to Lake Tsana, at the head-waters of the Blue Nile, where the coffee-plant, lemon, citron, orange, and banana, are found in tropical abundance. |
 | | Among the ruins of Axium, an ancient city near Adua the present capital of Abyssinia, are still to be seen some relics of a mighty but forgotten past, when Ethiopia was one of the great powers of the earth, and Solomon in all his glory did not disdain to entertain her queen. |
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