] 26 Dr Boue on the Scenery and Antiquities 



tenburg (not far from Presburg in Hungary), a conical hillock 

 of a similar form, but possibly erected for a different purpose. 

 It would, perhaps, be worth while to open those in Turkey. 

 In the neighbourhood of Pella, on the high road near an excel- 

 lent fountain, there are what appear to be the ruins of a temple, 

 consisting of a square room with walls of square stones, and 

 the traces of two or three smaller rooms. It is used at present 

 as a reservoir for the water. Several palms are close to the 

 spot, which is like an oasis in this flat and treeless country. 



At Salonichi are two well known triumphal arches built by 

 the Romans, one for celebrating the entrance of Octavius and 

 Antony into the town after the battle of Philippi, the other 

 adorned with Corinthian columns, and called after Constantine. 

 Between these two there exists an old ruinous temple, partly 

 hidden by new buildings, which was at one time converted into 

 the church of Peter and Paul, and afterwards into a mosque. 



Probably the finest Roman Antiquities I saw, were near 

 Uskup, the ancient Scopia (Justiniana Prima), consisting of 

 the remains of an aqueduct, similar to those near Rome, with 

 fifty-five large arches still entire. The aqueduct describes a 

 slight curve, and the arches diminish in magnitude on both 

 sides. They are built, like those between Mehadia and Orschova 

 in the Bannat, half of stone, half of large bricks. Between 

 every two arches there is always a smaller one placed a little 

 higher, and near it there are generally the ruins of a small 

 square tower. There is a very short Latin inscription at one 

 end of the aqueduct. At one league's distance from Uskup 

 there is a small hill, which, from the debris on it, appears to 

 have been formerly the site of some town. 



I observed in the vineyards on the hill above Kostendil 

 (Justiniana secunda) the debris of walls and bricks, so that the 

 old town was probably situated there in the time of the Romans, 

 or at least there may have been some castle on that spot. Re- 

 mains of a Roman fortification with walls (Porta Trajana) occur 

 in the defile to the S. of Ichtiman. The position of Fiorina 

 in Macedonia on the declivity of a hill, and the straight paved 

 roads leading from it to Castoria, would indicate the possibiHty 

 of their having been also Roman establishments. Sometimes 

 there are two or even thi-ee pavements, one on the top of the 



