406 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, once extended beyond its present boundary, 
V over all the plain of Katar'ina, to the foot of 
Olympus ; reaching quite up to that Palieo-castrOy 
whose inhabitants, they say, then carried on 
an extensive commerce. Who the travellers 
may have been, thus designated under the name 
of Franks, it is difficult to determine. We at 
first believed them to have been Dr. Sihthorpe 
and Mr. Hawkins. Afterwards, we supposed 
that Mr. Tweddell, in his journey from Salonica, 
visited those ruins : and, if this be true, great 
as the regret must be which is felt for the loss 
of his valuable journals', and deeply as this 
loss is now deplored by every person of taste 
and literature in Europe, it will be increased 
by this circumstance ; because Mr. Tweddell 
would have made the discovery of a city in this 
part of Pieria an important point in the illustra- 
tion of its general topography : and if he there 
found, as it is very probable he did, any antient 
inscriptions among the ruins, it is unnecessary 
to add a syllable as to the use that he would 
have made of them. Being therefore without 
any clue, either to the name of the city, or to 
(l) See the account of their " extraordinaty disappenrance^" in the 
valuable work published by his brother, — "Remains of (fte late John 
Tweddell," Sfc. Land. IBIB. 
