"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٢‎٨‎٣] (٥٠٨/٣٠٤)

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1. The Eaftern Gate 3 at which we enter'd.
2. The Ciftern.
3. The Street pav'd with Stone and extending within the
City.
4. A few Habitations in the end of the City. •
5. A Bridg over Orontes without the City, and contiguous
to the Gate.
6. The River
7. A Turret with a room within it.
Augufi the twenty (ixth. Continuing our Journey^ at day- y*
break' we came to an end of the Plains^nd began to afcend the
mountains which we were to crofs over in order to get to the Sea^
and;, if I am not miftakea, they are part of the Mountain Ama-
no 0 which, becaufe at a diftance it appears black, is called by
the Turks Car a Aman^ that is 5 Black whence alfo they
now corruptly call the Province which is comprehended in the
faid Mountain, ("and was,according to fome, the ancient Cilicia)
Car am am a. We refreflit our weary Camels with two hours reft
in a place amongft the Mountains, where 3 though there were no
Houfes, yet we wanted not Water and wild Figs. After which
being arriv'd to the higheft part of the Mountain, and re-enter'd
the common road from Aleppo, we difcover'd the Mediterrane
an Sea afar off, which to me was a welcome fight, in regard I had
not feen it fince my departure from in the year 1616. We
defcended down by a way where the Precipices are lecur'd with
good breaft-works of earth fometimes for a Mile together 5 and
at length came to the Town of Beilan, from whence the moun
tains are here denominated Montague di Beilan, A little be
yond this Town, we repos'd in a by-place near a running-
water, and under the (hadow of abundance of Nut-trees 3
for the Town it felf and places adjacent were all taken up
by a great Caravan which came from Aleppo xo Conjiantinople
by land.
the twenty feyenth. An hour before day we began to
defcend amongft the ftreights of thefeMountains-^here we met a
great Caravan of Merchandife which had lately come in two Ve
netian Ships, and was going to Aleppo : After two or three hours
travel we came to Alexandretta^ call'd by us Europaeans Scande-
roon, but more correftly in Turkiili Eskander, that is, Alexcwdro
Craco^ becaufe they will have it denominated from Alexander
the Great. It was fometimes a noble City, but by reafon oi" the
bad air (for itisfituated upon the Sea in a Moorifh Plain, and
inclos'd with Hills which keep off the wind) it was never
much inhabited 5 and the year before my being there,it was al-
wholly deftroy'd by the Pirats oiBarbarj^who ipare none either
of a different or of their own Religion., nor yet bear any refpeft
to the States of the Great Turk himfelf, though their Lord3
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