Concerning the city of Cansay, which is the greatest city on earth 1 .

Departing thence, I came unto the city of Cansay, a name which signifieth “ the City of Heaven ² .” And ‘tis the 193greatest city in the whole world, [so great indeed that I should scarcely venture to tell of it, but that I have met at Venice 194people in plenty who have been there] ¹ . It is a good hundred miles in compass, and there is not in it a span of ground which is not well peopled. And many a tenement is there which shall have ten or twelve households ² comprised in it ³ . And there be also great suburbs which contain a greater population than even the city itself. For the city hath twelve ⁴ chief gates, and from each of them cities extend to 195a distance of some eight miles, each one greater than Venice is or Padua ¹ . So that you may for six or seven days travel continually about one of these suburbs, and yet shall you seem to have gone but a very little way.