424 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, because the appearances vary so considerably 
I ' ; in different seasons of the year. The tra- 
veller journeying through this country at the 
melting of the snow, or after the annual rains, 
would find his search for a single stream repaid 
by half a dozen ; and during the dry season, 
perhaps, nothing answering to his notion of a 
river would occur. The author finds a note 
in his journal, stating, that he did not pass 
a single river between Katar'ina and Lehdno; a 
Lehdno. distance of six hours. At the latter place we 
halted for the night. The whole of this journey 
from Katar'ina was through a country, fertile^ 
perhaps, but looking most wretchedly ; and it 
may be conceived what a state the roads were 
in, from the circumstance of our making no 
further progress during an entire day. At 
Lehdno we were conducted to the same lihan 
where the poor Frenchmen, before mentioned, 
were halted for the night, during their horrid 
march to Constantinople. " They were seen," 
said the inhabitants, " carrying the heads of 
tiieir wives and of their children, and of others 
fl) The plains around Methnne were portioned out hy Philip among 
liis soldiers, as the rewards of their services after the capture of the 
city. 
