,•584 VALE OF TEMPE. 
CHAP, and with such force that it carried with it trees 
, of immense magnitude. The length of this de- 
Length of ^jg taken in its whole extent, from its entrance 
the tram, ' ' 
at Bdba to its termination at the northern extre- 
mity, is reckoned, in the country, as an hour's 
distance, ''to a horse ivalking moderately fast." 
We use the expression as literally as it can be 
translated. This corresponds with the distance 
mentioned by Pliny, in the passage that has been 
already cited, of five Roman miles for the length 
of Tempe, taken in its whole extent, from the 
Pelasgic to the Pierian Plain. 
Appear- Howevcr beautiful the scenery may appear 
ka^ing^the to a traveller's eye within the pass, it is very 
different when he leaves it. As soon as the 
gorge opens, and a view of the Pierian Plain 
is exhibited to him, he beholds a disagreable, 
swampy flat, covered with dwarf-trees, reeds, 
and thorns. Here we overtook a caravan from 
Ampeldkia, as it was crossing a long stone 
Tempe, and the Heights of Olympus. 
Tkermopyl^. 
The Pass between Bodonitza and Salona. 
Mount PiKDUs. 
The whole of QStolia. 
The whole of Acarnania. 
The Villacti o( Caldurita in the BIorea. 
The whole of Latoma. 
