DEFILE OF TEMPE. 355 
t)f that Being who is represented in the im- 
mensity of his works ; and we thereby indulge 
the same feelings which first induced the be- 
nighted Heathens to consider the tops of their 
mountains' as habitations of *' the most high 
godV 
Drawing near to the base of this mio^hty ^"^,^*, 
'=' ^ o '' of the Val- 
rampart, which seems to interrupt all commu- ley. 
iiication between the plain of the Pelasgi and the 
more northern territories, the entrance to the 
defile of Tempe begins to appear, like a breach in 
a wall. Suddenly one of the guides, a Greek, 
conducting a baggage-horse, began to sing, in a 
loud tone of voice, a popular ballad in Romaic, 
expressing a dialogue between the two moun- 
tains, Olympus and Ossa; which still retain their' 
original names in the country, although a little 
altered in the appellations 'O EAIMnoS KAl 
'O KISSABOI. The dialogue relates to a dispute 
between the two mountains, as to the length of 
the season when they are concealed by snow *. 
(5) Tlarai Tt trxd'Tiai ri (pi\at, xcti v^eioyls ax^oi 
'T^ptiXaiy c^ivy. Hom. Hymn, in Apollitiem, vcr. 144. 
(4) Ju/j/^er being therefore called "T-i/'/a-Taj, and 'Tr^/^uya;. 
(5) We shall give the beginning of it, exactly as we received it from 
an illiterate peasant; not vouching for correctness, or grammatical con- 
struction. 
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