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Travels into L e v a n t. Part II. ' 
Toubijafa. 
A Field of 
Melons and 
Cucumbers. 
Futlidge. 
Caradere. 
antiquities Handing in feveral places. The¥ame Saturday the ninereenth of 
Jtilj, there arrived a little Caravan near to our Camp, which came from 
Jleppo, and was going to l^an. 
On the twentieth of Jm//, we parted from Kodgiafar, about three 
a clock in the morning ; half an hour after five, we paft by a great Village, 
called Toubijafa, which was on our left hand, and is onely inhabited by Syri- 
ans : So foon as we palTed it, we came into a great plain (owed vvith Cucum- 
bers and Melons, of which thofô of our Caravan rook as many as they could 
eat a-nd carry with them, notwithftanding the Cries of the poor People, Men, 
Women and Children, who had no better payment than ill words, as if they 
had been much in the wrong for complaining that their Goods were forcibly 
taken from them. About nine a Clock yve palled a little Water, and after 
that, found the Tents of fome Curds, three quarters after nine, we encamped 
near a Village called Futlidge, near to which there is a Well of good Water ; 
in Winter they encamp at a Village near the Mountains, called Caradere, a 
little on this fide, becaufe there are Grotto's in them to lodge in 
We parted about two of the Clock in the Morning, direding our way 
Eaft-South-Eaft; fuch hot Vapours deemed out of the Earth, that ("for breath, 
and that I might not be ftiffledj I was forced to fan my felf ; which made me 
think of the Samiel, which I had already heard fo much of Half an hour 
after five, we (aw on the fide of the way to the left, the Ruines of a great 
Caftle CàilQàSertfchehan^ of which feveral panels of Wall fiill ftand. 
About eight of the Clock we found fome Tents of the Curds ; and then 
crofied at leaff twelve Canals one after another, which difcharge their Water 
at Nifibin, where we arrived three quarters of an hour after eight, and en- 
camped beyond the Bridge, which confifts of eleven fmall Arches, under 
which a great Water runs, which is divided into three by plowed Fields, 
that reach even to the Bridge, and render three of its Arches ufelefs : They 
call all thefe the Waters of Nifibin ; for ask them the Name of a River in 
what manner you pleafè, they'll give you no other but the Name of the 
place it riins by. This water comes from the Mountains, and before it reach 
Kifibin^ they cut it into feveral Channels for watering of their grounds that 
are planted with Cotton, rice and other things which require Water. That's 
a heavy and unwholfome Water, and fo is the Air, which is fo bad, that I 
was told that if one fleep in it by day or by night, he runs a great risk of 
being fick, and that is the reafon why the People of the Conntrey are fo taw 
ny as they are. 
JVi//^/w was formerly a great Town, atprefentit is divided into two quar- 
ters fèparated by a plowed field, and both thele quarters make but an ordi- 
nary Village. Heretofore it had a Church dedicated to Mar-Jac^, that's to 
fay Sf James who is called the Brother of our Lord ; It was very large, 
but at prêtent there is nothing to be feen but the Arches of the doors, and a 
fmall fpace, which was, (as 1 think,) the end of the Church,wal]ed up by the 
Syrians, where they and the Armenians at prefent celebrate Mais. The 
Cuftomerof Nifibin came and demanded his dues of our Caravan, though 
Nifibm depend on the Ba^m of Mevdin, the Cuifomer of which had already 
taken his dues at Kodgiajar, but he took nothing from me, becaufe he thought 
I was a Greek. 
We parted from Nifibin next day being Tuefday the two and twentieth of 
July, about one a Clock in the Morning by Star-light, and pafièd another 
Canal; a ftrong North- Wind blew then, which hardly cooled the Air. About 
five of the Clock we began to fee on our right hand the Mountains Sendgtar 
which reach from North-Weft to South-Eaft, but they were about two days 
Journey diftant from us. 'Half an hour after feven we croffed a water, half 
an hour after eight, another, and a quarter after nine we pafied a third, 
which was very lovely, and called Dgerrahhi Scui : We thought to have en- 
camped near it as is ufiial, but becaule the Mules mufî have been fent ro 
grale on the other fide, and that it would have been troub'efome to make 
them crofs it back again in the Evening; we went farther, and encamped 
near roa Spring of good Water, in a place called Kmarltck, from which we 
parted about eleven of the Clock at Night, and crofied a great Water, where 
our 
Nifibin. 
Mar-Jacob. 
Mountain 
Sendgiar. 
Dgerrahhi 
S oui. 
KJmarUck,' 
