نزهة المشتاق في اختراق الآفاق (Book of Roger — Geography with 70 Maps)

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to the island of Suakin, to the land of Zalaq in the lands of the Beja, and it ends at the land of Abyssinia and connects to the Indian Sea. The length of this sea is one thousand four hundred miles. The deepest part of this sea has aqasir treacherous shoals/straits upon which ships are destroyed, so no one rides its ships except the rabbaniyun expert mariners knowledgeable of its shoals, who have tested its paths and currents. It contains fifteen islands, which we will mention in detail in the place where they are discussed, with the help of God.

As for the second great sea, known as the Levantine Sea, its outlet is from the Dark Sea which is in the West. Its beginning is in the fourth climatic zone, and it is called there the Sea of the Strait original: "Bahr al-Zuqaq", because its width there is eighteen miles. Likewise, the length of the Strait from the island of Tarif to the Green Island is also eighteen miles. It passes eastward in the direction of the lands of the Berbers and is called the Farthest Sea, until it passes by the middle West and reaches the land of Ifriqiya, to Wadi al-Raml, to the land of Barqa, the land of Libya, and its coastal regions, to the land of Alexandria, to the north of the land of al-Tih, the land of Palestine, and the rest of the lands of the Levant, until its end reaches al-Suwaydiyya, which is its terminus. From there, it turns back toward the West, connecting to the gulfs of Constantinople, to the island of Balyunis, to Badranat. There is the outlet of the Venetian Gulf, and it connects to the seas of Sicily, to the lands of Rome, to the lands of Safuna and Narbonne, and crosses the Pyrenees mountains original: "Jabal al-Burtat", passing eastward into the lands of al-Andalus to the south of its center, and ends at the two islands where it began. The length of this Levantine Sea from its beginning to its end is one thousand one hundred and thirty-six farsakhs.
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