Mountains. 
THESSALONICA. 47;") 
aceompany us upon the morrow, in a costume chap. 
suited to the wild country we had yet to - 
traverse. 
The last moments of this day were employed ^pi»^"'J»'J 
*' i J Prospect 
in taking once more a view of the superb of the 
. Olt/mpian 
scenery exhibited by the mountains Olympus chain of 
and OssA. They appeared upon this occasion 
in more than usual splendour ; — like one of 
those imaginary alpine regions suggested by 
viewing a boundary of clouds, when they ter- 
minate the horizon in a still evening, and are 
gathered into heaps, with many a towering 
top shining in fleecy whiteness ^ The great 
Olympian chain, and a range of lower eminences 
to the north-west of Olympus, form a line which 
is exactly opposite to Salonica; and even the 
Comm. &c. torn. II. p. 117-) The portrait of Manuel Palcrologvs, 
engraved as a Vignette to Chap. I. Vol, III. of these Travels, Octavo 
Edit, represents him witli one of these caps, as they were then worn by 
Greek Emperors. 
(2) Persons who have never beheld a lofty chain of snow-clad moun- 
tains, like the yllps and Pyrenees, may have a faithful conception of 
their appearance, by attending to the resemblance exhibited by cloud* 
under such circumstances. As a proof how very much the two are 
like each other, it may be mentioned, that the author some years ago 
viewing the Rfietiun /J/psirom the plains of Siiabia^ was so completely 
deceived, havinu; mistaken them for a bank of clouds, that until he 
drew nearer to the defile at Fuesen he could not be persuaded that the 
white objects he saw towering in the horizon were mountains. 
