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Then Vaticia^{1Now Fatsa, Turkey.} and Girisonda^{2Now Giresun, Turkey.} follow [Simisso]^{3Here Dati returns to his itinerary along the coast of the Black Sea.},
a hundred miles and a hundred miles more, following the coast
to the east—then finally Trebizond.
At this point [the coastline] starts to turn in an arc
until it reaches Pezzonda.^{4Now Pitsunda, Georgia.}
From one point to the other is a distance of
two hundred fifty miles, but to go around^{5I.e., hugging the coastline}
would be a hundred miles longer.

The rivers of Lo Vati^{5Now Batumi, Georgia.} and Fascio^{6The Rioni River, in Georgia.} are both up there^{7Referring in a general sense to the region east of the Black Sea, since east would be "up" on a contemporary map.};
they flow through the land of Circassia^{7The Caucasus.}
and further off to the east is the Sea of Baku^{8The Caspian Sea.}
with the cities of Urgenj^{9Now Konye-Urgench, Turkmenistan.} and Samachia.^{10Now Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.}
But to go back to the coastline we were discussing,
you will find Sevastopol^{11Sukhumi, in the Abkhazia region of Georgia—not the more famous Sevastopol in the Crimea.} along that route,
then Pezzonda, and three hundred miles further along
you will find the Strait of Tana.^{12The channel leading from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov, now the Kerch Strait.}

Where the coastline^{13I.e., of the Black Sea.} turns back to the west,
the aforesaid strait [goes] north,
and if you follow it two hundred miles straight
towards the northeast, you will find Tana.
From where we started our trip at the beginning
this is the most remote and most foreign place
that you can sail to—and here
at the Tana River^{13the Don River}, Asia Major^{14Another name for the Caucasus region.} ends.

Thanks be to God. AMEN.