TO THESSALONICA. 427 
difference being only in the epithet, as applied chap. 
to the name of the river'. Here we began ■ 
to see a little cultivated land ; our previous 
journey during this day having been through 
flat commons covered with water and mud. 
Two hours after passing the Mauro-smack, we 
saw, towards our left, a village called Yanitza, 
at the base of a mountain, by the foot of which 
flows the river Vardar'^. We crossed this 
river by a wooden bridge formed of planks, at 
the least a quarter of a mile in length. The 
current was extremely strong : it is the Axius 
of Herodotus; separating the Mygdonian from 
the Botticean territory -, where Pella stood ; and 
(1) This river must be the Lydias, after having received the water* 
of the Erigon • but Herodotus mentions the confluence of the two 
rivers, Lydias and Haliacmon; the latter of which was farther to- 
wards the south. WA. Herodotum,)i\st. lib. vii. c. 127. p. 419. ed. 
Gronovii. 
(2) " The best information I could procure respecting the source 
of the Vardar was in substance as follows : When the plain of the 
Vurdiir is scorched up in summer, the shepherds drive their flocks and 
herds into the country between Bosnia and Caradar, and to the high 
mountains beyond Caradar, eight days' journey from Salontca. 
Those shepherds relate, that in a swamp, which trembles w ben a man 
walks upon it, there is a spring, which rises from the earth so as to 
form a river upon the spot eleven yards wide from bank to bank. 
Soon afterwards it becomes augmented by seven other tributarj- 
streams {called rivers by the shepheids); but the true source of the 
Vardar, they say, is this powerful fountain." Cripps's MS. Journal. 
(■") 'E«*J r»iv "A'^iov Torafiit, Sg eu^i^ii x'^^l* rriv Mvyioviny rt zai Bcrrimiix. 
Herodoti Hist. lib. vii. cap. 123. p. 418. ed. J. Gronov. L.Bat.n\$. 
