VALE OF TEMPE. Cu9 
vvas one with a head full-faced m front, and a ^'^-^'''• 
horse upon the obverse side, M'hich we had never 
seen before ; also another with this legend as a 
reverse, jp^-p^ Some curious Cuphic coins 
were also brought, that were struck under the 
Caliphs. We had seen similar silver coins at 
Platcea, and neglected to buy them, thinking 
they had been Turlcish: the same were also 
observed at Larissa, and at Marathon. 
Thursday, December the twenty-fourth, we 
were an hour occupied in descending from Am- 
peldkia into the F'ale of Tempe. Having regained 
our route, as soon as we began to proceed 
through the defile, we observed that the river 
Pentus was much swoln, and very muddy ; but 
we could perceive no appearance corresponding 
with Pliny s account of the unmingled waters of 
the Eurotos\ probably owing to the flooded state 
of the river. Such appearances are common in 
many other rivers ; and therefore there is every 
reason to believe that Pliny s account is accurate. 
The river called by him Eurotos, is the Eurotas 
(5) "Accipit ainnera Euroton, nee recipit, sed olei niodo supernatantem 
(ut dictum est Homero) hre\i spatio portatuinabdi.it: ptEnales aquas 
dirisque genitas, argenteis suis misceri recusans." Plinii Hist. X;it. 
lib. iv. c. 8. tora. I. p. 212. L. Bat. 1635. 
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