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Inscrip- 
tions. 
FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
mud. Just before we reached the town of 
Katafiiia, we had to ford two rivers; the first 
being called Mauro-Nero\ or black water, an- 
swering to the Greek Me las (a name common 
to many Grecian streams); and the second 
bearing the appellation of Pellica : they both 
unite before they fall into the Thermcean Gulph''. 
To our surprise, we observed nearly a hundred 
hogs wallowing in the mud of these rivers ; 
proving that the population is not entirely 
Turkish. Near the place where the Pellica is 
commonly passed, we saw, among some large 
plane-trees, a small chapel, about which were 
the ruins of a temple of the Doric order. We 
observed a large triglyph, a pillar, and the 
remains of its foundation. We copied three 
Inscriptions which we found among these ruins. 
The first was upon a pedestal, near the river ; 
inscribed, as its purports, by " valerian hip- 
POIATRUS, SON OF HIPPOIATRUS, FOR THE SAKE 
OF REMEMBRANCE." 
(1) The modern Greehs call water vsg«, and vioiv. The name of this 
river was not pronounced Mauro-nero, but Mavro-jiei'i- 
(2) Herodotus makes the Hallacmon and the Lydias unite in their 
passage to the Gulph of Thernia, but places their embouchure farther 
fco the north, as will be shewn in the sequel. 
