A province of Abyssinia (Africa). Captain Speke traced it to Lake Victoria Nyanza, near the Mountains of the Moon (1861).
“The swelling Nile.
From his two springs in Gojam’s sunny realm,
Pure-welling out.”
Thomson: Summer.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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