Part IL Travels i?ito tk Lev ANT 
the Chriftians call it St. Georges Gate, it looks North-Eaft; Bah-Ei-Barccufa, 
oLherwife Bab-El-Hadid, or Iron-gate, it looks Eaft-South-Eafr ; Bab-El- Ah- 
mar^ the red Gate, it looks to the South-Eaft ; Bab-El- Atame^ the dark Gare, 
it looks to the South-Eafr, but it has been ftopt up not long fince, becaule 
much mifchief was done there ; Bab-El-Nairem, the Gate that leads to iV^ïir^?;?, 
it looks to the South-Eaft ; Bab-El-Macam, fo called from a Santo of that 
Name, buried hard by ; it is alfo called Damafcus Gate, and looks to the 
South ; Bab-Kennefrimj from the Name of a Captain that kept it in time of 
the Chriftians; it is alfo called the Prifon Gate, becaufe the Prifons are near ^ 
to it, it looks to the South- Weft. My meaning is, that the City in thofe 
places where thefe Gates are looks to thefe Quarters of the World, for fome 
of the Gates look along the Walls. 
Without the Prifon'sGate,there are a great many fair large Caves cut in the 
Rock, which are wide, and have a very high Roof; reaching above an Hun- 
dred paces into the Rock .- They make ropes in the mouths of them, and 
lay Grapes there alfo a drying to make Brandy of : This Rock is white and 
pretty foft. 
Seeing my curiofity led me to fee all that could be (èen,they took me one day 
to a place, called Scheik Bakir yfrom the Name of the Founder; it is a very plea- Scktl(^ Bahjr] 
fant convent of Dervijhes. You enter into a Court where there is a Foun- 
tain with a lovely Bafon ; on the right hand at the end of the Court there 
is a fair large Hall, covered with a great Dome, paved with lovely greyifh 
Marble, and on the left hand ftands the Mofque, covered with a Dome: 
The Water they have in that houfe, is force^ by VouJJer agues. From thence 
we paft by the Garden of Sultan Amurat, which fignifies but little ; and then 
went to refrefh our lelves at the Fifli-well, which is a Court furrounded TheFi(h-weII„ 
with Walls, where there are a great many plane-Trees, and a Canal whar- 
fed with Marble, that is filled with Water from a very good Spring hard by, 
and that Water is very light. In that Canal there is plenty of Fifh which 
none dare take, for the Turks will not fuffer it, faying that if any eat of them 
they fall fick : They may be fèen playing in the Water, which is fo clear, 
that one may eafily fee to the Bottom ; this place is fhut with a very thick 
Stone-gate, whofe Pivots are of one piece with the Gate, and turn above and 
below in the Lintel and Threfhold. 
The Caftle of Alepp reaches in length from North-Eaft to South-Weftj 
and is of an oval Figure afwell as the Town, which muft be feen from 
Mount Angeletti- a quarter of a League to the Weftward of it : From thence 
you have a fair profpeft thereof ; and may perceive that it reaches from 
North-Eaft to South-Wefl. This hill is called by the Francks^ Monte Delia 
Angeletti, becaufe there are many little Birds there, called by the Arabs Angekm. 
Meetz, and by ûiQTurki Fendgeali. 
All the Houfes of Aleppo are better built, than in any other place of Turkey 
that I have feen. There are a great many fair Mofques in it, and amongft The great 
others the great Mofque, which is to be fèen from the great field from which Mofque of 
it bears betwixt North and Eaft. It hath a large Court almoft fquare, pa- -^^W- 
ved with lovely black and white Marble ; towards the middle there is a great 
Bafon covered with a Dome rough caft over,fupported by fix Marble-Pillars ; 
and on the fide towards the South, there is a Fountain covered with a Dome 
in the fame manner, but lefs, which is alfo fupported by fix Marble-Pillars. 
A Gallery or very wide vaulted Porch, runs all round the Court ; and that 
Gallery hath feventeen Arches in length, and eleven in breadth under 
which they who have performed the Abdefi or other purification fay their 
Prayers ; this Gallery is terraffed over-head. On the North fide in the mid- 
dle of the front, is the Chair or Pulpit of St. John Damafcene, wherein he 
Preached' ; and it is upon the fide of the Terrafs. This Chair is of Stone, co- 
vered with a Dome of the fame, they enter it from the Terrafs, under an Arch 
on each fide .• before it there is a round Stone-Balcony pierced through, and 
wrought in the fides, and over-head a Pent-houfe of Stone, to keep the Prea- 
cher from the Rain. 
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