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as that given by Livy of its locality'. The chap. 
allusion made to Pella by Herodotus is less ^ ' • 
descriptive of its position*. In visiting places 
that have been rendered famous for the birth 
of illustrious men, it is natural to inquire, 
whether, in the scenes of their infancy and 
youth, there existed any thing likely to bend 
the mind towards the characteristic disposition 
it afterwards assumed. We have already 
described a region which was the nursery of 
inventive genius and poetry: it will therefore 
now be curious to examine the nature of 
another territory, whence a spirit of martial 
enterprise, of high ambition, and the most 
insatiable thirst of conquest, of dominion, and 
of glory, derived their origin. The inhabitants 
of mountains, and of maritime districts, of 
inland territories, lakes, and marshes, or of 
Commerce de la Grice, torn. I. p. 87. Not. (l). Paris, 1800. The in- 
formation concerning it, which we received at Sulonica, was, that the 
place is now called Arackse^. 
(3) " Sita est in tumulo, vergente in occidentem hybernum. cin- 
gunt palndes inexsuperabilis altitadinis, aestate et hyeme; quas 
restagnantes faciunt lacus. In ips& palude, qu^ proxima urbi est, 
velut insula eminet aggeri operis ingentis imposita : qui et inurum 
sustineat, et htimore circunrtfnsae paludis nihil Isedatur. Muro urbis 
coDJuncta procul videtur." Liivio, Hist. lib. xliv. cap. 46. torn. III. 
p. 734. ed. Crevier. 
(4) T»s t^evfft ri Taoa iciXaffftD fruMov ^u^iov *oX.it 'l;^)i«i ts xai n>A.X<c. 
Herodoto, Hist. lib. vii. p. 418. cd. Gronov. L.Bnt. 1715. 
