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which will hereafter be more particularly chap. 
noticed, will set this matter in a clear lioht. 
According to the plan hitherto observed in these 
Travels, we shall avoid anticipating observa- 
tions that were subsequently made ; but set 
before the Reader the substance of our Notes, 
according to the order in which they were 
written upon the spot. Mr. Walpole considers 
the Defile of Tevipe, and the Fale of Tempe, as 
two distinct places. His opinion, and the ob- 
servation of another learned and accomplished 
traveller, our common friend. Professor P«/mer', 
upon this subject, are subjoined in a note'. 
(1) John Palmer, B.D. y^rafcic Professor, and late Classical LectuFcr 
in St. John's College, Cambridge ; — vir eruditus, probus, dilectus. 
(2) " In order to understand clearly what the Antients have said 
concerning Tempe, it is necessary to keep in mind, that there are two 
distinct places, havings distinct characters of scenery belonging to 
them; — the Defile of Teuipe ; and the Valley of Tempe. 
*' I shall begin with the first. — The river Peneus flows for three or 
four miles through a gorge between the mountains Olympus and Ossa, 
which rise on one side of it, almost perpendicularly : on the other, 
they alTord space for a narrow road formed in the rock, running along 
the river side. Some of the mountains in Borrowdale by Keswick 
resemble those in the defile of Tempe, both in shape, and in their 
wild and barren aspect. The manner in which the rocks at Matlock 
rise from the border of the river reminds us of those at Tempe : but 
to make the resemblance more striking, nothing but the grey limestone 
rocks at Matlock should be seen, divested of all the verdure with 
which the oak and mountain-ash adorn them ; and they should rise 
to a greater height. The Defile of Tempe could never have been repre- 
sented by the Antients as picturesque or beautiful. Lix'y, speaking of 
the 
