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Alexandria looks west towards Ceuta
and north toward Satalia.^{1Antalya, Turkey}
It is a wealthy, noble, and excellent land
and a large commercial port;
here begins the outlet where the Nile flows into the sea [i.e. the delta].
From here it is fifty miles in a straight line
to the part of the river called the Rosetta^{2Rasheed, Egypt, which is on a section of the Nile in the delta once known as the Rosetta River.},
which is three thousand miles from the Strait [of Gibraltar].

[If you keep going] without turning, there is another outlet
that descends into the sea more than fifty miles further along—
past this, you will find Damietta.^{3Now Dumyāṭ, Egypt.}
Then it is two hundred miles along the coast
until Larissa^{4Now al-‘Arīsh, Sinai}, which is at the base of the gulf
and is the closest to the Red Sea.
Here the shoreline turns from east to north
and the land is totally flat.

From Larissa to Laiazzo in Armenia
the coastline is straight for six hundred miles;
this whole route goes north
by northeast according to the compass.^{5"Quarta di vento" or quarter-wind refers specifically to a 1/32nd section of the compass.}
The port of Beirut in Syria
stands a little less than halfway along, about three hundred [miles from Larissa],
and from here back to Alexandria it is
five hundred miles for whoever wants to go by open sea.