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continuation of the same plain wherein that of chap. 
St. Basil, or St. Fasilh is placed. We can find ■ 
drew great sums of money, and were supplied with timber for their 
fleet. (Thucyd. lib. iv.) We find, from an epigram of Antipater, 
that in the age of the Antonines some remains of tbeTemple of Diaoa 
were extant here : 
The epigram is important, on account of the mention made in it of the 
situation of the city on each side of the river, W a/iifori^mt it^xifitf 
ii'iiffiy. In the time of Thucydides, the river flowed round it, ^tfippiovrts 
tau "Sr^vfiito; ; and hence, he says, it was called Amphipolis. {\\b. iv.) 
Some travellers say the ruins at the mouth of the river are called 
Chrysopoli. If this be true, we have a proof that Amphipolis stood here; 
for the city, though in ruins when Antipater wrote the lines already 
mentioned, rose again, and was called Chrysopolis : this we learn from 
Tzetzeson Lycophron, ver. 416. 
" From the mouth of the Strymon to Pravasta, I count five hours. 
This place is situate between two plains, and is distant from the sea 
three hours. There are here many iron works ; and the fortresses at the 
Dardanelles are supplied from this place with balls for the cannon. The 
mountains containing the iron ore run in a direction from Orfano, near 
the Strymon, to Pravasta. At three hours' distance is Cavalla, situate 
on a piece of land projecting into the sea, opposite to Thassus, and united 
by a low isthmus to the continent of Macedonia. Some derive the name 
from the resemblance they find in the position of the town to the figure 
of a horse ; the hinder part of which is turned to the sea, and the head to 
the land. But it appears to be only an abbreviated corruption of Buce- 
phala, the antient name of the place. The distance altogether from 
Salonica to Cavalla is between eighty-five and ninety miles, going in a 
N. E. direction. Near the gate of the town, as you leave Cavalla, are two 
antient sepulchres, with Latin legends on them ; these have been already 
published. One of these monuments, near a mosque, had the word 
Philippis inscribed on it. It was probably brought away from that place, 
distant, according to the Jerusalem Itinerary, nine miles; according to 
Appian (lib. iv.) twelve." IFalpole's MS- Journal. 
