476 THESSALONICA. 
^ xi^' ^^^^"^ between Olympus and Ossa, constituting 
V » the Defile ofTempe, is hence visible. Directing 
the eye towards that chain, there is compre- 
hended in one view the whole of Pieria and 
Botticea ; and with the vivid impressions which 
remained after leaving the country, memory 
easily recalled into one mental picture the 
whole of Greece ; because it is portioned out 
by nature into parts of such magnitude, pos- 
sessing, at the same time, so many striking 
features, that after they have ceased to appear 
before the sight, they remain present to the 
mind. Every reader may not duly compre- 
hend what is meant by this; but every traveller, 
who has beheld the scenes to which allusion 
is made, will readily admit its truth : he will 
be aware, that whenever his thoughts were 
directed towards that country, the whole of it 
recurred to his imagination, as if he were actu- 
ally indulged with a view of it. In such an 
imaginary flight, he enters, for example, the 
Defile of Tempe from Pieria ; and as the gorge 
opens towards the south, he sees all the Laris- 
scean Plain : this conducts him to the Plain of 
Pharsalia, whence he ascends the mountains 
south of Pharsalus ; then, crossing the bleak 
and still more elevated region extending from 
those mountains towards Lamia, he views 
