_Of the land of the land of Turky & divers other countreys and
of the land of Mesopotamy._
THEN next is the land of Turky, that marcheth to Great Armony and
therein are many countreys as Capadoce, Saure,[1] Bryke, Quecion,
Patan & Genethe, in eche one of the countreys are many good cities,
and it is a plaine land, & few hills and few rivers, and then is the
kingdome of Mesopotamy that beginneth eastwarde at flom of Tygre[2] at
a citie that men call Mosell,[3] and it lasteth westwarde to the flom
of Euphraten, to a citie that men call Rochaym[4] & westwarde from
high Armony unto the wildernesse of Inde the lesse, and it is a good
land and playne, but there is few rivers, and there is but two hils
in that lande, the one is called Simar, and the other Lison, & it
marcheth unto the lande of Caldee, and ye shall understande that the
land of Ethyope marcheth eastward to the great wildernesse westwarde
to the land of Nuby,[5] southwarde to the lande of Maratan[6] and
northward to the redde sea & then is the Maritan that lasteth from the
hilles of Ethiope unto Liby,[7] the high, and the low that lasteth to
the great sea of Spayne.[8]
[Footnote 1: Otherwise written Brique, Quesiton, Pytan, and
Cemethe.]
[Footnote 2: The river Tigris.]
[Footnote 3: Mosul.]
[Footnote 4: Otherwise Roiantz.]
[Footnote 5: Nubia.]
[Footnote 6: Mauritania.]
[Footnote 7: Lybia.]
[Footnote 8: The Mediterranean.]