TO THESSALONICA. 415 
somewhat singular that the natives now call 
the place where the antiquities lie, by the name 
of MAKEAONIA. "It is a name," they said, ^in^liL 
" which they always give to the land there ; not ^^"''^'^'"'»''- 
to any Pal^eo-castro." The roads were deep, 
and full of mud, rendering our journey tedious 
and disagreeable : we were however amply 
repaid for all our fatigue, whenever we looked 
back towards Katar'ina; for then we beheld 
Olympus, not only in undiminished glory, but 
seeming of greater magnitude than ever, being 
without a cloud to obscure any part either of 
its summit or sides ; all its vast masses and 
deep chasms being displayed, so that the eye 
might range from its broad base upwards to its 
craggy tops, now radiant with bright and shin- 
ing light, reflected from accumulated snows, 
and contrasted with the dark shadows of its 
awful bosom ; beneath which, most beautifully 
pisturesque, appeared the woods of Katar'ina^ 
with the dome and minarets of the town conspi- 
cuous among the trees. At about half an hour's 
distance from this chapel, ascending a hill, we 
had another noble prospect, but in an opposite 
direction : it commanded the whole of the 
Therm^an Gulph ; Mount Athos appearing 
plainly to the east: also upon the opposite side 
of the gulph we saw distinctly the white walls 
