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Travels into the AU T. Part If. 
We parted from thence the lame day, immediately after Sun fèt, and à- 
7[.trbel. bout Eleven a Clock at Night, palTed by a Village called Zarhel where there 
is a Han. We had an allarm in that place, becaufe he that marched before 
with a Lanthorn, cried out that he law Horfe-men, which made us prepare 
to receive them, but none came. 
Han Toman. Wednefday the thirtieth of April, about break of day we palTed by Han To- 
man, and three hours after arrived at the City y^/efpf, where fo foon as I 
alighted, I went to the great Han, to lodge with Moufuur Bertet, as civil a 
Man as lives, and as zealous to ferve his Friends, as his Brothers are who 
were then at MarfeiUes, who have all ftiew'd me particular KindnelTes. 
Monfieur Bertet who refides at Alef^o had obliged me by his advice and care 
when I was at Damafcus ; and therefore I thanked Monfieur Baron -who had 
the goodnefs to offer me his Lodging, and accepted of the former. Monfieur 
Baron wzsaz that time Conful for France, and ' difcharged that Office with 
honour and univerlal Approbation. 
CHAP. VII. 
Of Oifervations of Aleppo. 
Aleppo. QEeing Aleppo, which I take to be the Ancient Barea, is one of the moft 
0 conliderable Cities of the Ottoman Empire in Afia by reafon of Trade, 
1 will defcribe what loblerved in it asexadtly as polTibly I can. This town 
Alexandretta. is diftant from Alexandretta or Scanderoon, that lies Weftward frona it, about 
two and twenty Leagues ; and from Euphrates which it hath tb the Eaft, 
betwixt eight and twenty and thirty. 
This Aleiçandretta which fèrves it for a Sea-port on the Mediterranean Sea, 
Decrees of is the Ancient H/er^/'o/i/. It is very hot in Aleppo, and the firft day of June 
heat at Aleppo, at Noon I found by my Thermomètre, that the heat was at the thirtieth 
The Ah-. Degree- The Air is thinand wholfom, fb that about the end of May, they 
begin to lie in the Night time upon Terrafies, untill the middle of September, 
and that without any fear of danger or hurt ; for during all that time there is 
no Dew, and they fay that in the Months of May, June and July, there is 
no Cloud to be feen ; neverthelefs whilft I was there wc had Clouds often, 
and Rain too, which all wondered at. 
i he circum- I went the Circuit of Aleppo twice, once onhorfe-back, and another time on 
fercnce of A- foot ; the firft time, I thought that in a large hour one might walk round it 
^W^- on foot; and indeed, having undertaken to do it my felf with, a friend, 
keeping clofe by the Walls on the outfide, it took us up but an hour and a 
quarter ; and if we had not flopped to look about us, we had certainly per- 
formed it in an hour or little more. We left the Suburbs, and went through 
D£'^;W,aSiib- the middle of Dgedid, which is a kind of a Burrough or Suburbs, lately built, 
. as its Name implies, for in Arahick^ it fignifies new. The Chriftians of 
~' Country lodge in that quarter, but there are feveral Turks alfo among 
them, and the houfes are well built. The Maronites, Armenians, Greeks and 
Syrians, tiave each of them a Church there. This Suburbs lies betwixt the 
Gates Bab-El- Fer adge and Bab-El-Nafre, and is pretty near the Burying-place 
The Walls of of the Chriftians. The Walls of this City are not ftrong, though they ftand 
-^li^ppo- upon a Rock, and there are houles built dole by them. 
The Gates of The City of Aleppo hath ten Gates, to wit, Bab-Antakie, the Gate of 
Aleppo. Antakin, by which they go to Antakia or Antioch, it looks to the Weft and 
North- Weft; Bab-FJ-Dgenain, the Gate that leads to a Village called Genam, 
it looks alfo Weft-North-Weft ; Bab-El- Fer adge, the Gate of fair profpeu;, 
becaufe paffing out at it, one has a fight of lèverai Gardens, it looks likewife 
Wert North-Weft ; Bab-El-Nafre, the Gate of Vidory, becaufe by that Gate 
the Turks entered the Town, v/hen they made themfelves Mafters of it ; 
the 
