390 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
To make an English word of its modern Greek 
name, as it is now pronounced in the country, 
it ought to be thus written ; ^yonoros. Hence 
we continued along the base of Olympus, 
through groves of plane-trees and tall reeds, 
traversing a long tract of swamps and mud, as 
upon the preceding day. After journeying in 
this manner for three hours, we arrived at a 
hhan, situate half way between Platamorios and 
Katarina. The plain here is called Kallidia, or 
Kaiudia. KalUthia : but to what circumstance of beauty it 
owes this appellation it is difficult to conjec- 
ture, being the most disagreeable swamp we 
had ever passed ; containing, however, great 
quantity of ducks, geese, and turkeys. Near 
to this hhan we observed an antient well: after 
leaving it, we arrived, in half an hour, at a 
place, where there is an old military paved-way, 
leading from Katarina down to the sea. An 
antient port is there situate ; and our guides 
told us that there had been a village, called 
St. Theodore, at the port, which was destroyed 
about four years ago. Hereabouts we crossed 
Maiaiiuia. the Makitlifia river by a bridge. Its source is 
in Olympus ; and there is a Palceo-castro in its 
neighbourhood, at three hours' distance from 
Katarina, upon the mountain, where there are 
