_ 177 _ On the next day, we travelled five leagues from here to a fine city called Clermont, which has about six thousand citizens and fine buildings, and is surrounded by a wall which is in rather poor condition; it is half a league from another city called Montferrand at the foot of a mountain called Puy de Dôme. On the next day we ascended the mountains without difficulty for six leagues to a small place called Souvagnat. On the next day, we went on from there seven leagues to a village called Fiche; and on the next day, we went on six leagues to a city (they call them villes and the vilas they call villages), called Monestier, which is poorly walled. On the next day, we travelled along roads with many groves and chestnut trees for seven leagues to a large city of about six thousand citizens, called Limoges. It has a somewhat ruined wall and wide outlying parts. At the entrance, there is a sumptuous stone-built temple of St. Sebastian. The houses are low-built in wood with frontages in brick like those in the Rua Nova. This is the style of all houses in the best cities in France, and inside they are large and fine. This city belongs to the King of Navarre. Although from the Alps to this point, we travelled up and down over mountains and hills, the roads are good, and the land is
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