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containing about 150 houses. They are detached from each other, 

 and have separate vineyards, gardens, or mulberry plantations, and 

 the whole place breathes an air of wealth and comfort which we 

 had not witnessed since landing at Athos. From the time of our 

 quitting Lemnos we had seen no Turkish houses until we arrived at 

 this place. At half-past ten we entered the immense plain, which 

 extends as far as Salonica. We passed a Turkish burial-ground, 

 where a number of broken granite and marble columns were scattered 

 round us, and a few cippi containing defaced inscriptions, but evi- 

 dently not of remote antiquity. Near this cemetery is a very large 

 conical barrow or tumulus, and on other parts of the plain we ob- 

 served similar constructions, some on circular, some on oval bases. 

 Their shape is so regular as to leave no doubt of their being artifi- 

 cial mounds ; and their rising abruptly from a plain as level as a lake, 

 produces a striking effect on the eye. None of them appear to have 

 been opened. 



ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE SEPULCHRES OF THE EUROPEAN AND 



ASIATIC GREEKS. 



Or THE EDITOR.] 



Many of a similar form may be seen in other parts of Greece ; they 

 have been observed in Thessaly by Mr. Hawkins on the road from 

 Volo to Larissa, and in the plain north of Pharsalia. He mentions 

 some of great size at Philippopolis, and others on the borders of the 

 Propontis, between Silivri and Constantinople. 



Adjoining to the straits of the Hellespont, and near Gallipoli, are 

 many lofty tumuli, which were remarked by Belon. Of these Thra- 

 cian barrows we may appropriate one to Lysimachus, for they are 



