352 LARISSA TO TEMPE. 
CHAP. Leaving Larissa, we saw, upon the right, the 
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. torso of a statue of a woman, remarkable for 
^°m,T ^^^ excellent sculpture visible in the drapery. 
Within the Turkish ccemetery, upon this side 
of the city, there were many Greek sepulchral 
marbles ; also the operculum of a Soros. Here 
we read some valedictory inscriptions, of which 
the two following may serve as specimens ; for 
they are hardly worth notice, except as a proof 
that the cutters of tomb-stones in all ages have 
been generally illiterate men. 
1. 
AIONYClA€PMOrENHNT 
ON6AYTHCANAPAMNIAC 
XAPINHPa)CXPHCT6XePIN 
2. 
AYrHTAIONTONIAIONANAPA 
MNeiACXAPIN 
HPcocxPHcrexAipe 
Tumuli. Being once more in the open Pelasgic Plain, 
we were struck by the appearance of the nu- 
merous tumuli then in view : many of them were 
extremely large, and in excellent preservation. 
They did not seem to have been opened and 
ransacked for the hidden treasure which it is 
possible some of them contain, as it has often 
