From Samudisi, to the village of Al-Hafer, 20 miles. On the eastern side, opposite it, is the village of Nablus. From Al-Hafer to Al-Hadidiya, 15 miles, which is a prosperous village. From Al-Hadidiya to Rashid, which is a fortified city with a market, merchants, and scholars. It has farms and crops of wheat and barley, and it has camels, many good legumes, and much cheese. It has various kinds of fresh fruits, and it has fish and types of fish from the salty sea, and much Nile fish. There, they catch the *delis*, salt it, and travel with it to all four directions. This is part of their trade. Most of the Egyptian provinces and their rural areas are in the north and the countryside. The countryside is all that is along the Nile. Most of the people of these villages are Jacobite Christians, and they have many churches. They are few in number and are people of means. Al-Haquli informed in his book that a great woman among the Coptic women might give birth to twins, or triplets, in one womb, and one of them would survive. They attribute this to nothing but the water of the Nile. From Rashid to the city of Alexandria is 90 miles. This is because you travel from Rashid to Al-Rimal, to Buqir, 30 miles, to Al-Asrain, to Alexandria, 30 miles. The people of Alexandria have a fish in their sea, mixed and with a stinging taste, called the *aroos*. If eaten roasted or cooked, the eater sees in his dream that he is dying if he does not have something to drink with it or eats a lot of lentils. As for the road from Egypt to Aswan and Upper Egypt, we have mentioned it. Likewise, the road from Egypt to Africa, we have mentioned it at a distance. It remains for us now to mention the road from Egypt to Al-Bahnasa, then to the city of Sagelmelsa, stage by stage. This is the road that the Maraites took in the year 30. From Egypt to Al-Bahnasa takes 7 days. From Al-Bahnasa to Gib Manfad.