Their Hills Are Right Fruitful, And There Are Many
Fair Wells And Cedars And Cypresses, And Many Other Trees Of Divers
Kinds.
There are also many good towns toward the head of their
hills, full of folk.
Between the city of Arkez and the city of Raphane is a river, that
is called Sabatory; for on the Saturday it runs fast, and all the
week else it stand still and runs not, or else but fairly. Between
the foresaid hills also is another water that on nights freezes
hard and on days is no frost seen thereon. And, as men come again
from those hills, is a hill higher than any of the other, and they
call it there the High Hill. There is a great city and a fair, the
which is called Tripoli, in the which are many good Christian men,
yemand the same rites and customs that we use. From thence men
come by a city that is called Beyrout, where Saint George slew the
dragon; and it is a good town, and a fair castle therein, and it is
three journeys from the foresaid city of Sardenak. At the one side
of Beyrout sixteen mile, to come hitherward, is the city of Sydon.
At Beyrout enters pilgrims into the sea that will come to Cyprus,
and they arrive at the port of Surry or of Tyre, and so they come
to Cyprus in a little space. Or men may come from the port of Tyre
and come not at Cyprus, and arrive at some haven of Greece, and so
come to these parts, as I said before.
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