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Wheat that is brought to Aleppo. This we 

 made our firft Stage; and mounting agaia 

 in the Morning about five a Clock, in lefs 

 than an Hour, paft by an uninhabited Vil- 

 lage, caird Vrghee^ our Road pointing as 

 before, through the fruitful Plain, even and 

 pleafant ^ but when we came to afcend the 

 Hills, where I reckoned we entred the De- 

 lart, and were to take our leave of Man- 

 kind, at leaft of an inhabited Country for 

 fome Days, we had a troublefome Paflage, 

 over loofe great Stones, without any appear- 

 ance of a Road. 



Our Guide had promifed to condud us 

 ttirough pleafant Groves and Forefts ; but 

 no fuch thing appeared, unlefs we would 

 beftow that Name upon low withered Shrubs 

 that grew in the \A^ay, only one Tree we 

 faw, which was of good ufe to us, ferving 

 as a Land-mark ^ and when we were come| 

 up with it, being left at a little diftance on| 

 the right Hand, we gain'd the Prolpeft of aj 

 remote ridge of Hills before us, and on the^ 

 top of one of them an old Cattle ; this Ca- 

 ilie, we were told^ was known by the Name 

 of Caz,ar Ihn Wordan\ but what it anciently 

 was, or in what Condition it is at prefent, 

 I could not learn ^ therefore, not unwilling- 

 ly, I turned my Eyes from it, to a little 

 round Hill more on the left, by which we 

 were to direft our Courfe, and about a quar- 

 ter of an Hour from which flood a Sheck's 

 Houle, caird Sheck Ailha^ where we were to. 

 bait, with a Well of Water by it, but fuch 

 that we had but little gvfio to tafte, though 

 it fcrv^^cl our Horfes ; All the Country here* 



abouts 



