TO THESSALONICA. 397 
so that whether called Botticea, or Pieria, or chap. 
Perrhcebia, it is all one and the same plain. /. • 
After leaving the ruins of the Doric temple, 
being obliged to turn towards the left, out of 
the ordinary route, in order to avoid the inun- 
dation at the confluence of the two rivers, and 
to effect a passage over another* branch of the 
Pellica near Katafina, we observed a most re- 
markable tumulus on a hill near to the village of 
Spee. This corresponds with the situation which 
^pollodorus* has assigned for the Tomb of Tomb of 
Orpheus. It is moreover mentioned by the '^^ *^'" 
Epitomiser of Straho, that there was a village 
belonging to the city ofZ)m7«, called Pimplea'', Pimpiea. 
where Orpheus was said to have died. This 
tumulus is of immense magnitude : its form- is 
perfectly conical ; and upon its vertex there are 
trees growing of great size. But the Tomb of 
Orpheus was only twenty stadia from Dium'; 
and this tumulus is about the same distance 
from Katar'ina. The site of it, according to 
. (4) /Ipollodori Bibliotheca, lib. i. ,c. 0. 
(5) Epilom. fin. lib. vii. Strabon. Geog. p. 479. ed. Oron. (nlfi- 
sXitai, itia, 'O^^tvi SuTjfiSsir.) " In antiquis exemplaribus nixXat, et 
TlivXtiar, sine litera. ft legi, notaverunt eruditi, ut notavit Salmaaius ad 
Solinum, p. 112. ed. UUraject. ( Palmer.) " Ibid. Not. 3. 
(6) Puusania: Bmot. c. 30. p. 7G9. ed. Kuknii^ 
