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The Gaelic Maundeville (Author: John Maundeville)

paragraph 129

Of Mesopotamia, Trebizond and the castle in Armenia

Of the situation of the other countries between the four rivers which come out of Paradise: the kingdom of Mesopotamia and the kingdom of Chaldea, they are between the Tigris and Euphrates, and the kingdom of Media and Persia between the Tigris and the Nile, and the kingdom of Syria and Palestine between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean Sea, the which sea dureth from Morocco till it comes into the sea on the westward side of Spain: three thousand and two score miles from Constantinople to the end of that river.