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, Looking forward, at last, we disco- 
vered the miserable village called Al- 
lah-Kilissa, or Allah-Hissar, (God's 
tower or castle,) composed of about 
three score huts, inhabited by Bulga- 
rians, with a tower, garrisoned by a 
dozen Albanians, with their officer. 
Such are the present edifices, popula- 
tion, and military establishment of Pel- 
la, the once powerful capital of Philip, 
and Alexander, and Perseus! A low 
Mahometan now commands, whip-in- 
hand, in the city where Alexander first 
saw the light; and the paternal seat of 
that monarch whose dominions extend- 
ed from the Adriatic to the Indus, is 
now the property of Achmet, son of Is- 
mael, Bey of Serres. But if Pella be 
sunk, well adapted to its fallen state 
are the inhabitants, distinguished, even 
in Macedonia, by their gross ignorance 
and their brutal hatred of strangers. 
Notwithstanding the orders of the com- 
mandant, and the abundant offer of 
money, it was not without a long alter- 
cation that we obtained entrance intoa 
hovel, merely to deposit our baggage. 
Proceeding to survey the place, we first 
visited a church, built of stone, dedi- 
cated to St. Paul, usually styled by the 
Greeks the great apostle. The children, 
attracted by the European dress, fol- 
lowed us from place to place; while the 
dogs, not less amazed, assailed us in 
the most ferocious manner. Some of 
the people, however, who had seen 
Franks in Thessalonica, offered to sale 
antique coins and small figures in terra 
cotta, found in the place. Traversing 
a large space of ground, covered with 
fragments of tombs, and masses of brick 
and tile, we came to the village-well, 
on a stone of which were these words: 
AIONYZIOZ MEPAKAEOTE. 
Descending in a westward direction, 
we fully recognized the position of 
Pella, as described in the foregoing 
iia from Livy, on the slope of a 
ouble eminence. The remains of the 
ramparts, constructed of stones of very 
large size, carried round the summit 
of the highest hill, induced me to 
suppose them to indicate the position of 
the citadel. Descending southwards, 
I followed theline of another inclosing 
wall, still called Pella by the inhabi- 
tants. The direction of this wall points 
to a square basin, of Turkish work- 
manship: but the facing wall is found- 
ed on a broader wall, of ancient Greek 
construction. In the lake Lydias, now 
called Jenidgé, I observed the mouth of 
the river from.the town so called, and 
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those of the river Niagousta, and of 
several rivulets, proceeding from neigh- 
bouring springs. 
Having thus surveyed all that re- 
mains of Pella above yround—and to 
attempt excavation was impracticable— 
although under the surface, a rich trea- 
sure of antiquities must undoubtedly 
be concealed, we returned to our Bul- 
garian hut, where our Janissaries had 
prepared a dinner of pilaw, the usual 
food of travellers, and the favourite 
dish of the people in the east. After 
dinner, I extended my researches to- 
wards Jenidgé, a considerable town, 
famed for its tobacco, distant about a 
league westward from Pella. _Enter- 
ing on the road which runs not far from 
the well before-mentioned, I observed a 
tumulus, or barrow, which had been 
opened. Going into it, by an opening 
made on the south side, we found a sort 
of passage, thirty-one feet four inches, 
English, in length, by seven feet in 
breadth, which led to two square paral- 
lel rooms, both much injured by the 
openings made to enter and examine 
them. Continuing to descend to a se- 
cond passage, by a steep slope under a 
vault, which terminated at a horizontal 
passage or gallery fifty-seven feet long, 
and eleven feet two inches broad, we 
observed two niches in the wall. These 
left us no doubt that the galleries and 
recesses, which externally appear as 
barrows, were certainly constructed as 
places of sepulture. A third passage 
opened into another vaulted chamber, 
fourteen feet three inches by twelve feet 
ten inches,in length from north to south, 
This tumulus having been opened and 
examined, no discoveries were left for 
us to make. We were, however, con- 
vinced of the erroneousness of the vul- 
gar opinion, that the barrows found in 
various parts of the country werethrown 
up by the'furks ,;when they first invaded 
Macedonia, as a place on which to erect 
the precious national standard of Ma- 
homet. Nothing now remaining to be 
seen at Pella, we returned to Thessalo- 
nica by the ruad we had before pursued, 
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NEWS FROM PARNASSUS. 
No. XV. 
The POETICAL RECREATIONS of the 
CHAMPION. 
VOLUME of poetry from the pen 
of a person who stands so high 
both in the literary and political world 
as Mr. Thelwall, cannot fail to be an 
object of more than ordinary interest; 
and: we are persuaded, that in intro- 
ducing 
