IX. 
374 VALE OF TEMPE. 
CHAP, the site of Tempe, this author says', " How are 
we disappointed, by finding that scarcely any 
modern traveller has paid a visit to Thcssaly; 
while Boeotia and Pkocis have had numerous 
describers. The country of Achilles; the region 
of the battle of Pharsalia; the favourite scenes 
of poetic creation, should have claimed a little 
more attention. The consequence is, that the 
site of Tempe is controverted, or unknown ; and 
Busching, a geographer of the first name and 
character, says of it', ** On la cherche aujour' 
d'hui, et on ne la reconnait plusT Cellarius had 
before expressed his difficulties on the subject 
of Tempe; confessing that he was puzzled by 
Catullus, in the epithet he gives it, of " Phthio- 
tica Tempe''' But this difficulty seems easily 
removed, in the recollection that there were 
several places with the same name of Tempe; 
and there might have been one of them in 
Phthiotis. Thus Ovid^ speaks of Cvcne'ia 
solitary journey into a remote and unfrequented quarter of Ireland, 
where conversation was not to be expected, and tlie mind was left to 
itself." The reader who is fortunate enough to procure a copy of it, 
will be thankful for the amusement it is calculated to afford, and for the 
information, upon various topics, which it contains. 
(1) Ibid. p. lis. 
(2) See the 12rao edit, of Busching, printed at Lausanne, 17S0. 
torn. VIII. 
(S) Owdi« Metam. lib. vii. ver.371. tom.II. p. 4S9. Amst.lTll. 
