Note 8 — CHAP. V. Arrive at Adowa—Reception there—Visit Fremona and Ruins of Axum—Arrive at Siré.
Reading edition
Poncet says that these obelisks are covered with hieroglyphics; but in this he is wrong; he has mistaken the carving, I shall directly mention, for hieroglyphics. London edit. 12mo. 1709, p. 106.