8 FROM THESSALONICA, 
CHAP, no notice of this masrnificent piece of watei* 
I . t> 1 
V ■ , ^'- , , in any modern writer. Stephanus of Byzantium 
mentions a czVyand lake of the name of Bolbe; 
leaving us quite in the dark as to its situation'; 
-S"^*" and the Lake Bolbe is said by Thucydides 
Pttlna, . 
to be in Macedonia^ but he does not notice the 
city^ From Thucydides we learn, that it had 
a communication with the sea, towards Aulon^ 
and Bromiscus: and this may be true of the 
Lake Beshek, although to our eyes it appeared 
completely land-locked. The beginning of the 
Lake Bolbe is by UAnville placed exactly at 
the distance ofybr/j/ wz/e^fromTHEssALoxiCA'; 
but the town of the Greater Beshek, which is 
not so near to Salonica as the eastern extremity 
of this lake, is only tiventy-seven miles, that is to 
say, nine hours, from that city. UAnville 
assigns for it a situation close to the Sinus 
Strymonicus; which does not agree with its 
real position. It seems evident from the 
words of Thucydides, considered with reference 
to his place of observation, that the Lake 
(1) "Ea-Ti *aJ BoX/ii} v'oXis, xaJ x!fiv>!. Sti'pli. BjjZanl. de Urb. &c. 
p. 173. L.Bot.lGdl. 
(2) KaJ aipiKOfiivos Vi^^i "SuXyiv I'z) rhv AuXavx, y.x) S^v,ul<rxev, ^ ■/! BoXlon 
i^ifivri i^ttiriv i; ^aXccffffav, xa'i ^iiTvsroir,(ru.mvs;. i^uion rviv tuz-ra. Thucydid. 
Hist. lib. i. c. 103. p. 27. ed. Hudson/'. 
(3) Vid. Specimen G80graphicum GracicE Antiqitce. Paris, 176-. 
