434 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, in the hope that, of all its antient cities, this at 
. least would not escape our researches; because 
in Mg^ were preserved the sepulchres of 
Alexanders predecessors : and a superstition 
existed concerning the burial of the kings of 
Macedon, similar to that which is so well known 
in ItalT/ with regard to the Popes ; namely, that 
their dominion would cease when the bodies of 
their sovereigns should be no longer buried in 
Importance the samc coemctery. The discovery of the 
tainingits ruins of iEo^ would be particularly gratifying. 
posiuon. j^ ^1^^ examination of the regal tombs of the 
Macedonians, we might become acquainted with 
their manner of burial, of which so little has 
been yet ascertained. But as all our inquiries 
respecting the remains of this city ' were made 
(1) It stood to the south of the river Axius, fifty-nine miles from 
ThessahnicUy in the Roman road ; DiocletianopoUs and Pella being 
between Thessalonica and jEg^ts. — Since this was written, the author, 
upon his return to England, circulated, in manuscript, a regular 
set of queries, as hints to travellers respecting their researches in 
the Levant. One of those queries related to Edessa, and to the 
Sepulchres of the Macedonian Kings. He has, in consequence, 
recently been permitted to make the following extract from a 
manuscript I^etter of his friend. Dr. Fiott Lee, of St. John's College, 
Cambridge, to his fellow collegian, Mr. Hughes ; whereby it appears 
that Dr. Lee succeeded in discovering the spot, and actually went 
himself into two of those sepulchres. " If a Firman could be 
procured from y4li Pasha of Joannina, I am confident," says Dr. Lee, 
'* that there would be found at Edessa treasures of antiquities. The 
place 
