TO THESSALONICA. 403 
instead of Dium, is described as being upon chap. 
X. 
that river. The Haliacmon is also mentioned . 
by Herodotus, and under some circumstances 
that might connect it with the mingled streams 
oi Mauro-Nero and Pellica': but not a syllable 
is said of Dium ; and he places it farther to the 
north, by associating it with another river, 
Lydias, which, according to Ptolemy, fell into 
the gulph of Therma, near to the mouth of the 
Axitu. 
Here we saw the old Pelasgic car again in 
use, as we had seen it in Thessaly and in Troas, 
drawn by two oxen yoked. We then entered 
Katafina, a small town, surrounded with wood, Katarinu. 
situate in the narrow plain which Livy mentions, 
between Olympus and the sea; and upon the very 
roots of the mountain, whose summits tower 
above it in the highest degree of grandeur 
which it is possible to conceive. There is no view of 
place where the whole outline formed by the 
many tops* of Olympus may be seen to so much 
(3) Herodotus describes them as the boundaries of Bottiaa and Mace- 
donia : and he says that the two rivers fell by confluence into the same 
channel : iiixi' Au5'£« ts itoraftoZ xat 'XXioizfietos, e' eu^i^curi yv' rrir B»t- 
ruufii vt *«i Uaxiinila, Is Tu'uri f'nt^oi to uictf fvfi(tiryoiri(. Herodoti 
Hist. lib. vii. cap. 127. p. 419. ed. Gronov. 
(4) 'Asgsr<tr>) ito(v(pri TeXuiu^aioi Ot/Xuf»irgia. Horn, II. A. 499. 
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