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FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP. 
X. 
Metkone. 
From this place we intended to pass by water 
to Salonica; but when we arrived, we dis- 
covered that the persons who conducted our 
baggage, instead of halting, as they had been 
ordered to do, had proceeded forward with it 
to Lehdno. The space between Leuterochori 
and Kitros agrees with the distance mentioned 
by Strabos Epkomiser, of forty stadia between 
Pydna and Methone': and the last-men- 
tioned city occurs in this order, according to 
the description given of Macedonia by Scylax'^. 
But these are not the only reasons for be- 
lieving that Leuterochori stands upon the site of 
Methone. After leaving this place, in the 
road to Salonica, the territory of the Bey of 
Seres immediately begins ; and, according to 
the antient boundaries of the two regions, 
Methone was the last town of Pieria ,• upon 
leaving which, the traveller entered Botticea^. 
This seems to prove an inaccuracy of the 
former geographer, in placing the Haliacmon 
(1) ^A-rix" S' *> MMufi rnf f/ii Tlvhtti; ffraiiec (t. Excerpta ex Lib. VII. 
Strab. p. 479. ed. Oxon. 
(2) Vide Peripl. Scylacis Caryandensis, y.6\. ed. J.Gronnv. L.But. 
1697. 
"(3) See the passage, as above cited, of \X\e Excerpta o^ StraWs 
seventh book; after which occur the words »■«; St ^AXu^av, I oTaita.' h fit* 
