PHARSALIA. 33^ 
The name alone remains to shew what it once 
was. South-iuest of the town, indeed, there is a 
hill surrounded with aiitient lualls, formed of 
large masses of a coarse kind of marble. There 
is also the lower part of a Gate. And upon a 
lofty rock above the town, towards the soutK 
are other ruins of greater magnitude ; shewing 
a considerable portion of the walls of the Acro- 
polis, and remains of its Propylcea. This place, 
as it is usual, is called Palceo-castro. Livy men- Paiai. 
tions a PALiEPHARSALUs*; and Straho notices^"""''"** 
the new and the old city *. The modern town is 
situate at the foot of a mountain commanding a 
very extensive view towards the north of the 
Plain of Pharsalia, extending east and west. In 
the court of the khan, and in other parts of the 
town, we saw some steps made of enormous 
blocks of stone. Pharsa contains two thousand Population 
houses ; but, for its inhabitants, a far greater 
proportion of Turks than of Greeks. There are 
four mosques ; and the cisterns, within the 
courts and inclosures of these sanctuaries, and 
of the houses, perhaps contain inscriptions ; but 
(4) " Castra eo tempore A. Hostilius i?i Thessaliu circa Palxpharsa- 
luin habebat." \"u\. Liv. Hist. Epitome), lib. xliv. c. 1. p. 678. 
Paris, 1738. 
(.5) Tns Ti mXa7ci; »cu Tr,t fix: Strab. Gcog. lib. ix. p. 625. ed. Oron. 
