PHARSALIA. 
Bearing of the Defile — Antient fortification — Roman 
Inscription — its date ascertained — use made of it — 
Former notions of Tempe — Descriptions given of it hy 
antient authors — Pococke and Busching — Value of 
lAvy's Observations — Pliny and ^lian. 
After leavinf^ the old boundaries of GrcEcia 
Propria, the traveller, in the wider fields of 
Th ESS ALT, finds an altered region, and an ,^,00^0? the 
altered people. The difference is perceivable after'^L- 
from the instant that he has passed the heights '"» ■^''^'"" 
■*• o viopylcP. 
behind Zeitiin. ,Thessaly was the Yorkshire of 
Antient Greece, as to its country and its inhabi- 
tants. A vulgar adage in England, maintaining 
that "ifa halter be cast upon the grave of a York- 
shireman, he will rise and steal a horse;' and the 
saying, *' Do not put Yorkshire upon m," as de- 
precating fraud ; express the aphorisms antiently 
in use respecting the Thessalians, who were 
notorious for their knavish disposition; inso- 
much that base money was called Thessalian 
coin, and a cheating action Thessalian treachery. 
Do not these facts tend to establish former 
observations concerning the effect produced by 
different regions upon the minds of the natives ' ? 
— for Thessaly has not forfeited its archaic 
(0 See Chap. II. of this Volume, p. GO. 
