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¶ Da baruti infra terra una giornata
E una meça e quella gran citade
Che’n tuto’l mondo -e- tanto nominata
Marchadantesca e di gran nobilitade
Possente e richa damascho chiamata
Che niuna cie di magior anthichitade
Sopra alla terra non trovian che sia
E de stata gran facto tuta via

¶ Tripoli de soria siegue per mare
Sexanta miglia e poi trenta tortosa
La leccia e poi septanta in quello andare
E tuta questa e terra montuosa
Fin poi cinquanta milia dove apare
La focie del soldino asai famosa
Poi alexandrenta altre cinquanta
Insino a la giaça ha poi quaranta

¶ Angulo accuto fa qui la marina
E volgie molti venti e da ponente
Verso libeccio a quarta di dichina
Fino ad antiocieta o quasimente
La giacia a cento miglia s’avicina
Al tarso e poi quaranta la sequente
Il turcho e poi palopoli a septanta
Ad antiocieta e poi novanta.

From Beirut it takes a day
and a half overland to that great city
that is mentioned so often throughout the world
as a center of commerce and a place of great nobility.
This is Damascus, which is called the rich and mighty,
and no other city of such great antiquity
can be found on all the earth.
And it has always been thus.

¶ Tripoli-in-Syria comes next,
Sixty miles by sea, and then thirty to Tortosa;
Laodicea is seventy more in the same direction.
All of this is mountainous land
for fifty [more] miles until it opens up to the
the mouth of Soldino^{1Samandağ, Turkey; at the mouth of the Asi river}, very famous,
then it is another fifty to Alexandretta ^2İskenderun,
followed by Laiazzo which is forty more.

¶ Here, the coastline makes a sharp turn,
and redirects many winds, so that towards the, west***
the southwest wind turns, according to the quarterwind
All the way up to Antiochetta, or thereabouts.
a hundred miles away, approaching Laiazzo
At Tarsus and then the following forty
to Curco and then Palopolis in Septanta
and then ninety [more] to Antiochetta.

¶ Da baruti infra terra una giornata
E una meça e quella gran citade
Che’n tuto’l mondo -e- tanto nominata
Marchadantesca e di gran nobilitade
Possente e richa damascho chiamata
Che niuna cie di magior anthichitade
Sopra alla terra non trovian che sia
E de stata gran facto tuta via

¶ Tripoli de soria siegue per mare
Sexanta miglia e poi trenta tortosa
La leccia e poi septanta in quello andare
E tuta questa e terra montuosa
Fin poi cinquanta milia dove apare
La focie del soldino asai famosa
Poi alexandrenta altre cinquanta
Insino a la giaça ha poi quaranta

¶ Angulo accuto fa qui la marina
E volgie molti venti e da ponente
Verso libeccio a quarta di dichina
Fino ad antiocieta o quasimente
La giacia a cento miglia s’avicina
Al tarso e poi quaranta la sequente
Il turcho e poi palopoli a septanta
Ad antiocieta e poi novanta.

From Beirut it is one day
and a half overland to that great city
that is mentioned so often throughout the world.
A mercantile exchange and place of great nobility,
it is called the rich and mighty Damascus,
so that no other of such great antiquity
can be found on all the earth.
And it has always been thus.

¶ Tripoli, in Syria, comes next,
Sixty miles at sea, and then thirty to Tortosa,
Laodicea is seventy more in that direction.
And all of this is mountainous land
for fifty [more miles] until it opens up.
The famous Focie del Soldino,
then to Alexandretta another fifty,
followed by Laiazzo which is forty more.

¶ At this sharp angle, one must navigate
the many turns and the winds coming from the west.
Towards Libeccio to Quarta di dichina
All the way up to Antiochetta, nearly
a hundred miles away, approaching Laiazzo
At Tarsus and then the following forty
to Curco and then Palopolis in Septanta
and then ninety [more] to Antiochetta.