TO THESSALONICA. 395 
was near to the Haliacmon'^'^. for althouoh a chap. 
X. 
position have been assigned in modern maps for - ■ 
a place called Stan-Dia, and D'yinville admits 
of its existence % we could hear nothing of it in 
this part of our journey. In viewing this region 
the whole way from Platamonos to Katar'ina, the 
parts which compose it are so exceedingly vast 
and distinct, that any seemino- confusion of its Antient 
. . Geogra- 
antient geography may have originated in two phyof 
causes : First, that the boundaries of Thrace and certain. 
Macedon were continually liable to change : and 
secondly, that different appellations were ap- 
plied to one and the same place. There was a 
time, as we have before proved*, when the 
limits of Thrace extended to the Isthmus of 
Corinth ; consequently, by very old writers, the 
mountains, rivers, and cities of Boeotia, Phocis, 
and Thessaly, would be considered as Thracian: 
and this may explain the reason why the old 
(2) "Ot/ fjurx Tt Aiet <roXiv, i ' AXiuxfiuv verafcos icrrm, lx/3aA.Xiv» I'j rot 
Qi^/iMii* xixtov. Excerpta ex Lib. Sept. Fin. Strdbon. Geog. p. 479. 
cd. Oxon. 
(3) " The last city," says D'/Jnville, " on this shore," (meaning 
the western side of the Therma'ic Gulph) " is DiuM ; known at pre- 
sent by the name of Stan-Dia ; in which a preposition of place pre- 
cedes the proper name, according to the usage which in later times 
had become prevalent in this part of the Roman empire." j4nt. Geog. 
p. 198. JLond. 1791. 
(4) See Vol. VI. Chap. X. p. 607. of the Octavo Edition of these 
Travels. 
