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Roger De Hoveden
The Annals vol.2., From A.D. 1180 To A.D. 1201.

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Roger De Hoveden
The Annals vol.2., From A.D. 1180 To A.D. 1201.
page 154



A.D. 1190. THE FLEET ARRIVES AT MARSEILLES. 153 great episcopal city, eituate on the sea-shore, the name of which is Barcelona. They then passed a castle situate on the seashore, called San Felice, where there is a good harbour. They next passed the territory of count Ponce, opposite a fine city, the name of which is Ampurias, where there is a good harbour. They then passed a great mountain projecting into the sea, which is called Cape Castiglione, where there is a good harbour, called Port Castiglione, and as you go up the river, there is a castle called Castiglione. They next passed a harbour, fine and large, the name of which is Cadakis, and then a great mountain extending into the sea, which is called Cape de Creus, at the foot of which there is a good harbour. They then passed a fine castle situate on the sea-shore, which is called Cockeliure,72 where there is a good harbour called Port Vendres. They next passed some sand-banks extending into the sea, called Capo Leucare, which make a conspicuous landmark, on which, near the sea-shore, is a fine episcopal city, the name of which is Narbonne, and a monastery, called Saint Mary de Mer. They thenpassed a projection of the land into the sea, which is called Brescou ; after which they came to the territory of the count de Agde, passing a fine city situate on the sea-shore, the name of which is Agde. They then passed near Villeneuve, the episcopal see of Magalona, near which is the port of Montpellier, the name of which is Lates. They next passed an island called Odur, which lies at the mouth of the Ehone, going up which river you come to a fine archiépiscopal city, which is called Arles-le-Blanc ; and still higher up the same river, you come near to Saint Gilles, and still higher again, you come to the fine city which is called Lyons sur Bhone. They then came to Marseilles, which is twenty miles distant from the mouth of the Bhone, and is a city subject to the king of Arragon. Here were the relics of Saint Lazarus, the brother of Saint Mary Magdalene and of Martha, who held the bishopric of this place, after Jesus had raised him from the dead. In this city there is a fine harbour, able to contain many ships of a large size, almost shut in by high hills, and on one side of it rises the episcopal city ; opposite to which, on the other side of the harbour, is the abbey of Saint Victor, in which a hundred black monks serve God ; and here, " Now ColUoure.


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