'6o§ DEFILE OF TEMPB. 
CHAP. We dined near a village called Yan : betweeij 
^■' ' this place and Larissa there are many vine- 
yards. Afterwards, we continued our journey 
by the side of the Peneus, until we arrived at 
Baba, situate at the entrance of the Vale of 
Tempe. There are many Turkish villages 
within the mouth of this valley, at its Thessalian 
extremity : and as we could find no antiquities 
upon the spot, we knew not where to place any 
of the Grecian towns that were said to have 
occupied the same position. Perhaps Baba may 
Goniius. have been the antient Gonnus, for this was in 
the entrance to Tempe : and there was also a 
city called Elatea, near to Gonnus^ and within 
the defile\ It is proper that the reader should 
be made fully acquainted with the nature o( 
this extraordinary passage : and first, in order 
to give him some notion of the appearance of 
Tempe, it may be said, that it resembles the 
pass of KyllycranJcie in Scotland, and that of 
'0 'EXifATTo; xxt KitTffccfias to, %voi [iouytz fiaXXovav, 
MaXuiov Tou QaXaiTffifou, xai 2iaTt t»u jiofifitv ; 
Ma fin ftaX^ev(7is Kiffalios, xat f^n ft-l ^a^aSioKtlis ; 
Eyo waXX/ 'Sit xarairj), to ficci to icoikoKai^t, 
Nfls iraja Kxi eivo tou va 'X^urou xai to; f^u %m ««"» toi ftntt. 
(1) " Livy, speaking of £/a?^a and Go7mus, says, " Utr-.que oj^ida 
injaucibus sunt, quee Teiife adeunt." Liu. Hist. lib. xlii. c. 54. torn. III. 
p. 654. Paris, 1758. 
