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who had been their companions upon the road, chap. 
whom the Turks had beheaded as fast as they 
fell sick by the way, because they were unable 
to keep up with the rest." Many of them fell 
for want of food, and some through grief and 
despair. It is said that at this place they 
excited the commiseration even of Moslems, 
who carried food and water for them to the 
khan where they were lodged*. Whether 
Lehdno was the antient Alorus or not, depends Aiorm. 
entirely upon the manner in which we are 
permitted to read a short passage, as given from 
Strabo\ respecting the distances of Methone, 
Pydna, and jilorus. If by seventy stadia be in- 
tended the distance of the two last from each 
other, then Lehdno is proved to have been 
Alorus ; but if this be assigned as the distance 
(2) 1"he annals of the Morlddo not furnish more dreadful instances 
of human suffering than those which occurred, after the breaking out 
of the French Revolution, within the period of a few years towards 
the close of the eighteentVi and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. 
To some of those afflicting sights the author of these Travels was au 
eye-witness : it seemed as if that BEING, who is " of purer eyes than 
to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity," had withdrawn his 
countenance from the earth: for it was such a season as Hubakkuk has 
called " THE HIDING OF HIS POWER." 
(3) ^Av'ix^i 3' h Ms^iivn T»5j fiiv nJSvjj; trraSix ft,'' rni ' AXu^ou Tt, o ffruoia. 
Excerpta ex Lib. VIL fine, Strabon, Geog. p. 479. ed. Oxon. 
