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Citation Information
NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY, ETC. 301
At the THREE CHURCHES,1 for tant. . . 02 aspers.
Under Noah's Ark,' for duty •• 3 „
Ditto ditto for tant. . . 02 „
At SCARACANTI, ditto . . . 02 „
At LOCCHE, ditto . . 01 „
At the plain of the Falconers, ditto (twice altogether) 1 „ At the said plain, for a ticket or permit from the lord 01 „
At the CAM UZONI, for tant. . . . 01 „
At the Plains of the RED RIVER,3 for tant. . . 01 „
At CONDRO, for tant. . . . 02 „
At SANDODDI, ditto . • 01 „
At TAURTS, ditto . . • 01 „
And you may reckon that the exactions of the Moccols or Tartar troopers along the road, will amount to something like fifty aspers a load. So that the cost on account of a load of merchandize going by land from Aiazzo of Armenia to Tauris in Cataria(?)4 will be, as appears by the above details, 209 aspers a load, and the same back again.'
1 I presume that this route from Erzrum to Tabriz follows the old Genoese line between Trebizond and Tabriz, which passed to the south of Ararat. The Three Churches are not therefore those of Echmiazin, but the Uchkilisi of the maps in the position just mentioned.
2 Sotto Larcanöe 1" Probably at Bayazid.
3 The Red River (Fiume Rosso) is mentioned in this position by the Palatine version of Odoric also. There is no Red River here, so named, but no doubt what is meant is the Araxes, or Ards, called by Edrisi Al Rd ,s, a name sure to be Italianized into Rosso.
4 Tartaria ?
5 It is really 203 aspers (about £2: 8 : 0). Apparently he has added in the 6 aspers named at the end of the first paragraph.
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