368 DEFILE OF TEMPE. 
CHAP, some parts of Tempe nearly the whole of 
(u—,^ — ' the passage from side to side, is therefore 
exhibited by the Peneus ; flowing with great 
rapidity from the west-south-west to east-north- 
east; that is to say, from the Pelasgic to the 
Pierian Plain, which begins at the eastern extre- 
mity of the de^le. By the side of this torrent, 
and at the western entrance, as before stated, 
stands Baha. To the south-south-east of Baba, 
that is to say, towards the right, but at a 
considerable elevation above this village and 
the river, upon Mount Ossa, is a village called 
AmpeiAkia. u^mpeldkia ; one of the most extraordinary places 
in all Turkey; because, being situate in the 
most secluded spot of the whole empire, and 
iisro eiifffitiu, rou Qiou teurou 'ipya, iTtai, xav IxtTt/a i2&>v, fxin Xlofflwiaivx 
veinaai. 'i^yev yap iffrt vitafiov, {ui i^ttaJ (palvtrai) h ^ia(rrafi( tZt ev^icti. 
Herodoti Hist. lib. vii. cap. 129. p. 420. ed. Gronovii. 
" Hos inter montes media qui valle premuntur, 
Perpetuis quondam latuere paludibus agri : 
Flumina dum retinent campi, nee pervia Tempe 
Dant aditus pelagi; stagnumque implentibus unum 
Crescere cursus erat : postquam discessit Olympo 
Herculea gravis Oisa manu, subitaeque ruinam 
Sensit aquse Nereus." 
Lucani Pharsalia, lib. vi. v. 343. p. 173. Lips. 1726. 
'Etrri Si X'^i'^ fitraru xtifisvos rou rt 'OATMIIOT. *«' 't?.' '022H2' *(t 
01 raZv iffri* uxi^V'^ri\a, xa) otov vTo rno; hias (p^osiriioi ^iiff^ifftUa, %iii 
ftitrov iixtrai x&i^ioii, x. r, X. JEllani Vaiiffi Historia;, lib. iii. cap. 1. 
torn. I. p. 191. ed. Grenovti, 1731. 
