WHO so will go lenger upon the sea and come nerer to Hierusalem--you shall go from Cipres by sea to porte Jaffe, for that is the next haven to Hierusalem, for from that haven it is but a days journey & a halfe to Hierusalem And that haven is called Jaffe, and the towne Affe after one of Noyes[1] sonnes that men call Japheth that founded it, and now it is called Jops. And ye shall understand that it is the eldest town of the world, for it was made before Noes floud and there be the bones of a giaunts side that be XL fote long. [Footnote 1: Noah's.] CAP: VIII. _Of the haven of Tyre._ AND who arriveth at the first haven of Tyre, or of Surrey beforesayde, may go by land if he will to Hierusalem, and he goeth to the citie of Acon in a day, it was called Tholomayda, and it was a citie of christen men sometime, but it is now destroyed and it is on the sea. And it is from Venice to Acon by the sea two thousand and Lxxx myle of Lombardy & from Calabre or fro Cicill it is to Acon a thousand three hundred miles of Lombardy. CAP. IX. _Of the hill Carme._ [Illustration] AND the yle of Grece[1] is right in the mid way, and beside this citie of Acon towarde the sea at viii[2] hundred furlonges on the righte hande towarde the southe is the hil Carme[3] where Elias the prophet dwelled, and there was the ordre of Carme[4] fyrst founded. This hyl is not ryghte greate, ne hygh, and at the foote of this hill was sometime a good citie of chrysten men, that was called Cayphas, for Cayphas founded it, but it is nowe all wasted. And at the lyfte syde of the hyll is a Town that men call Saffre, and that is sette upon another hil, there was Sainct James and saynt John borne, and in the worshippe of them is there a faire church made. And from Tholomayda that men now call Acon, to a great hill that men call Ekale[5] de Tyrreys is an hundred furlongs, and beside that citie of Acon runneth a lyttle ryver that men call Belyon, and there nere is the fosse of Minon[6] all round that is a hundred cubytes or shaftments[7] broade, and it is all full of gravell, cleare shyninge, whereof men make white glasse cleare, and men come from far countreys by shippe, and by lande with cartes to take of the gravell & if there be never so much taken thereof in a daye, on the morow it is full againe as ever it was, and that is great marvaile, and there is alwaye winde in that fosse that styreth alway the gravell and maketh it troubled. And if a man put or do therein any mettal, as sone as it is therein it waxeth glasse, and the glasse that is made of this gravell if it be done[8] into the gravell tourneth againe into the gravell as it was before & some say that it is a swallow[9] of the sea gravell.[10] [Footnote 1: Crete.] [Footnote 2: _Pynson_ and others say 120 furlongs.] [Footnote 3: Carmel.] [Footnote 4: Carmelite friars.] [Footnote 5: The scale, or ladder, of Tyre.] [Footnote 6: Meaning the sepulchre of Memnon.]