Note 145 — Chapter III · THE PHILOSOPHIC GROUP
Reading edition
In a Voyage to Abyssinia, by Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit, which Johnson translated, 1735, from a French version, mention is made, Chap. X., of Sultan Segued, Emperor of Abyssinia, “the much-talked-of lake of Dambia,” and the bridge built across the Nile by Sultan Segued. Neither in the edition of Rasselas by G. B. Hill nor in that by James Macaulay is the resemblance between Seged and Rasselas noted.