_ 316 _ used on the sea, as mentioned before, and they go to all the surrounding cities and places. From here one travels along the same sea, another short day’s journey, to a town called Aglat, situated to the north, which was formerly a great and populous city, and which was destroyed by a former king of Armenia called David when the Turkomans conquered and captured these parts, so that they could not make use of it. It must have in total three or four hundred citizens, most of them Nestorian Christians, who live by growing cotton and rearing livestock. It has good buildings and flat-roofed houses like the others. Here there are many good orchards of apples, which are taken from here to Shah Tahmasp and to the court of the Turk. They are famous in these parts; to say Aglat apples is like saying King’s pearmains. They are very similar to them and have an excellent flavour. Near here is a castle built on rocks, with certain round, vaulted constructions, very tall and ancient. It is said that they were built by Samson who was a native of here. Near it flows another large river, also crossed by a bridge. From here, along the same sea, one travels to Taduan, but those who go there do not travel by this route, but from Aglat.
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