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Oiloher the 13 th. This day we had the fame Satis- 
fadion as the day before, proceeding as near the River 
as the Road would permit ; and having made a Stage, 
of about fix hours, we refted under the fhade of the 
Tamarisk Trees by the River- fide, hoping to have found 
conveniency to have croft it : but we could not. la 
our way we faw nothing obfervable but the Ruines of 
a City caliy Baulus^ where the Turks had formerly a. 
Sangiack ; but now there is never an Inhabitant ia 
the Place, nor Houfe ftanding, but the Ruines of 
Houfts, and an Octagonal Tower of a confiderable 
, height, viz. One hundred and feven Steps, and beau- 
tified on the out- fide with Floriihes and an Arabiek In- 
fcription round about : It's a handfbm Strudlure, and 
probably the Work of the Mamalukes^ fince whole time 
little has been done to adorn, but abundance to deftroy 
and wafte this Countrey. After Dinner, we mounted 
(boner than ordinary ; becaufe hoping to reach the Tents 
of Affyne^ we were unwilling it fliould be late when we 
arrived : yet we made it near Sun-fet before we got to 
Fay^ a Fountain by which he lay. We had travell'd ftill 
on the (ame Point N. W. with the profped: of the River 
the greater part of the way; theneareft Reach thereof 
not being above an hour's riding from the Fountain. On 
the Road we met with feveral Bandera s of the Emir\ 
Soldiers, who knowing our Guide,' and underftanding 
we were going to him, gave us a very courteous Salam^ 
who elfe, perhaps, might have treated us with another 
(brt of Civility. The King's Tents fpread over a large 
Plain, and took up fo vaft a fpace, that though we had 
the advantage of a rifing-Ground, we could not fee the 
uttermoft extent of them. His own particular Tent 
was pretty near the middle of the reft, which were pitcht 
about it, not in a circular manner, but ftretching out in 
length as the Plain open'd, or for the better conveniency 
of a current of Water which from the Fountain raa 
through 
