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indeed the tomh shews, markino^ the heap raised chap. 
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over the dead upon that memorable occasion, i ^' , 
Mr. JValpole is also of this opinion ; although he 
has not noticed the tomb in his Journal ; neither 
did we observe the cotton plantation which he 
mentions : but this is of little moment. He 
mentions the course of the river, and the situa- 
tion o^XheJield of bottle, in his Journal \ 
From Pharsa to Larissa, the road is excellent. 
It is almost entirely over plains covered with 
fine turf, without a single stone, but sometimes 
interspersed with a fine gravel. The soil is 
very rich. The Plain of PharsaUa, which we ^ppeaj- 
•^ -y ' ance of the 
crossed first, riding during an entire hour at a ■^'^'"• 
jog-trot, resembled the scenery in Cambridge- 
shire; so much so, that we could not avoid 
noticing the circumstance ; being similarly flat 
and dreary, without inclosures, exhibiting pas- 
ture mixed with ploughed land, and dykes near 
the road, beyond which were shepherds with 
their flocks : only, instead of the Royston crows, 
we had nobler flights of eagles and vultures. A 
dense fog, concealing the distant mountains, 
(5) " The traveller cannot miss finding the field of battle, now over- 
grown with cotton: it is, says Appian, fura,^ <t>ec^ffdXtu ri ^iXn>s xa) 
'EviTiu; trara/iov. The Enipeus flows into the Apidanus, which is received 
by the Peneus." Jf'nlpole's MS, Journal. 
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