TO THESSALONICA. 399 
dead. It is difficult to explain what Pausanias chap. 
means by his allusion to the Pierian Mountairiy >■ 
because there was no other mountain than Olym- 
pus near to Dium; but perhaps this part of it in 
Pieria might have been so denominated. There 
is scarcely a mile that the literary traveller will 
proceed along the western side of the Ther- 
mcean Gulph, without regretting the loss of 
almost all information respecting its antient 
geography. If, as it was before observed, we 
had the seventh book of Straho in its entire state, 
this loss might have been in some measure sup- 
plied; but all our usual resourses fail us here. 
In such a dearth of intelligence concerning 
the rivers and the cities of Pieria, it behoves us 
to examine the only documents antiquity has 
afforded us with the greater assiduity ; and par- 
ticularly, to compare the observations of Liiij obwrva- 
with the modern state of the country. But even i^I"*^ 
Livys observations, perspicuous and valuable as 
they generally are upon subjects of this nature* 
tend rather to perplex than to guide us in our 
researches here : where may we seek for the 
river Mi/tis\ the town oi Jgassa\ or the river 
(3) " Ad amnem nomine Ulityn processit." Livio, Hist. lib. xliv, 
c. 7. torn. ni. p. 685. ed. Crevier. 
(4) " Postero die progressus, Jgassam urbeui, tradentibus sese 
ipsis, recepit." Ibid, 
