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did we finde at their hands, and because that many times 

 we were brought abroad into the City, somewhat wil I 

 say of such things as I did see therein, being a gallant 

 City, and chiefe in one of the 13. shires aforesaid. The 

 City Fuquieo is very great, & mightily walled with 

 square stone both within and without, and, as it may 

 seeme by the breadth therof, filled up in the middle 

 with earth, layd over with brick & covered with tyle, 

 after the maner of porches or galleries, that one might 

 dwel therein. The staires they use are so easily made, 

 that one may go them up and downe a hors-backe, as 

 eftsoones they do : the streets are paved, as already it 

 hath bin said : there be a great number of Marchants, 

 every one hath written in a great table at his doore such 

 things as he hath to sel. In like maner every artisane 

 painteth out his craft : the market places be large, great 

 abundance of al things there be to be sold. The city 

 standeth upon water, many streames run through it, the 

 banks pitched, & so broad that they serve for streets to 

 the cities use. Over the streams are sundry bridges both 

 of timber & stone, which being made level with the 

 streets, hinder not the passage of the barges too and fro, 

 the chanels are so deepe. Where the streames come in 

 and go out of the city, be certaine arches in the wal, 

 Parau there go in and out their Parai, that is a kind of barges 

 they have, & that in the day time only : at night these 

 arches are closed up with gates, so do they shut up al 

 the gates of the City. These streames and barges do 

 ennoblish very much the City, and make it as it were to 

 seeme another Venice. The buildings are even, wel 

 made, high, not lofted, except it be some wherein mar- 

 chandize is laid. It is a world to see how great these 

 cities are, and the cause is, for that the houses are built 

 even, as I have said, & do take a great deale of roome. 

 One thing we saw in this city that made us al to wonder, 

 and is worthy to be noted : namely, over a porch at the 

 comming in to one of the aforesaid 4. houses, which the 

 king hath in every shire for his governors, as I have 



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