TO THE STRAITS OF THERMOPYL^. 98/ 
topography of Turco-Chorio. Elatea was, next chap. 
VI II 
to Delphi, the largest city in all Phocis. There ^ ^'..^ 
was another town of this name in Thessaly, near 
to Gonnus*. It stood within the defile leading to 
the Valley of Tempe. Every degree of certainty 
with regard to the position of the two cities, 
Elatea and Ledon, must be afforded by 
others, better provided with facts for ascer- 
taining their real situation; particularly with 
inscriptions found upon the spot. Here the mer- 
cury in our thermometer indicated, at noon, 52** 
of Fahrenheit. As the spacious and open plain 
of Palipo-Castro offered a favourable point of 
observation for determining the situation of 
many principal objects, and especially of Ti- 
THOREA, whose relative position respecting 
those objects it is necessary to ascertain, we 
noted their bearings by a small pocket compass. 
Its distance from Tithorea and from Turco- 
Chorio has been already given. 
Tithorea — south-west ^nd. by south; situate obsena- 
1 r r • • ^ tions hv rfie 
at the leet oi precipices, and upon the iMa-nJtic 
south-south-east side of a chasm of Par- 
nassus, whence rushes the torrent Ca- 
chales. Upon the other side of this 
(4) According to Livy. 
