CHAP. 
X. 
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jlxiuSf or 
Vardar 
River. 
428 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
it is now called the Vardar. The same river 
is also mentioned, under the name of Axius, 
by the venerable Scylax\ As we surveyed the 
marshy district in which Pella was situate, we 
wished to note every thing belonging to the 
place of Alexanders nativity ; but it is remark- 
able, that the traveller no sooner quits the 
Grecian territories, than he is left almost with- 
out a clue to the antient geography of the 
country. Owing to this circumstance, the 
mountain at whose base the village of Yanitza 
now stands is without a name. The site of 
Pella. Pella, however, is said to be known, which 
cannot have been far removed from the same 
spot ; and it would indeed be marvellous if it 
were not well known', after such a description 
(1) V\&\s vaewWoneAhy Herodotus, hy Aristotle, 2^x\Ahy Straho ; the 
last of whom, Strabo, calls him IkvXo.^ o waXa/o; irv'y'y^a,(pivi. His notice, 
however, of the river Axius is only as a river of Macedonia, "A^is 
vroTctfio;, without adding a syllable of its situation. Vid. Scylac, 
Ctfryawc?. Peripl. p.6l. eA. Gronov. L. Bat.lGdl. 
(2) The editor of the Oxford Strabo says it is now called " Palatisa." 
Vjd. AV. 12. p. 479. Strabo}i.Geog. Wb.vii. The situation of Yanitza 
agrees very well with what Beaujeur has said of idnidge; and if so, 
it is highly probable that it stands upon or near to the site of Pella: 
for Beaujour adds, in a Note ; " II ne reste plus de Pella que quelques 
ruines insiguifiantes : mais on voit encore le pourtour de son magni- 
fique port, et les vestiges du canal qui joignait ce port a la mer par le 
niveau le mieux entendu. Les mosquees d'Ienidge aNT ete baties 
AVEC LES DEBRIS DBS PALAIS DES ROIS MaCEDONIENS. — Tableau du 
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