After visiting Amid (Diarbekr) he proceeded to Edessa, and there settled and spent the last ten years of his life.
On these, starting from Diarbekr or Mosul, they float down all their goods.
Oh, that some one would come out, and settle down in such a place as Diarbekr—what an abundant field of labour!
At this point, there is a road branching away to the north of the route we had followed and leading up to Diarbekr.
The place was no Roman fortalice like Urfa or Diarbekr, and the part that it played in history was not of any great note.
