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 Tygre² at a citie that men call Mosell,³ and it lasteth westwarde to the flom of Euphraten, to a citie that men call Rochaym⁴ & 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 Maratan⁶ 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

1: Otherwise written Brique, Quesiton, Pytan, and Cemethe.

2: The river Tigris.

3: Mosul.

4: Otherwise Roiantz.

5: Nubia.

6: Mauritania.

7: Lybia.

8: The Mediterranean.