432 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, inhabitants had left the city ; and some Tahtars 
. ^' , said that the number of deaths had daily 
increased to an alarming extent. We had, 
however, no alternative, but to venture into 
the midst of the contagion : our resources were 
exhausted, and we were in want of all kinds of 
necessaries. We saw upon our left, in the 
plain, near a village called Bounarchi, an im- 
mense tumulus of earth ; retaining still, among 
the inhabitants, the name of Tvy^^og; and near 
to it there was another of smaller size. In 
this plain, four-wheeled carriages were in use. 
About two hours' distance from the Fardar, 
Tehdie. we arrived at a miserable village, called Tekale, 
or Tektlly. There were several antiquities 
about this place ; among others, some granite 
columns, and a beautiful operculum of an im- 
mense marble Soros. As we viewed the moun- 
tains north of Thessalonica, and compared 
their appearance with the forlorn blank in all 
the maps of the country between the Hebrus and 
the ^xius, we could but regret that they have 
been so rarely visited by travellers. The whole 
Geography oi jEmathia^ is as a chasm in antient geography. 
°oma "" We know nothing of Pceonia or of Pelagonia, or 
(1) " Macedonia, &c. Emathia antea dicta." Plinio, Hist. Nat. 
lib. iv. c. 10. tom.I. p. 213. L. Bat. 1635. 
