30 FROM THESSALONICA, 
Crysopolis. But it had many names which 
Wesseling has not mentioned; and its Turkish 
Various name of lamholi, or Emboli, is derived from one 
the City, of them; for it was called EioN ; out of which 
the Greeks made Iampolis, and the Turks Iam- 
BOLi, or Emboli. Its other names were, Acra', 
Myrica, Crademna, and ANADR^MUS^ It is 
mentioned by Constantine Porphi/rogenetes, among 
the cities of Macedonia. The name of Chryso- 
polis was still retained in the sixteenth cen- 
tury. Belon mentions its ruins at the mouth of 
the Strymon; and he says the peasants called 
them Chrysopoli'. 
After leaving these ruins, we ascended a hill . 
and having passed over the top of it, descended 
immediately upon Orphano, which is said to be 
distant eight hours from Khan Erenderi Bauz ; 
but we performed the journey in Jive hours. It 
Orphano. Hcs at thc foot of the hill ; Orphano being upon 
(1) It was called ^^cra before it had the name of Amphipnlis : 
" Harpocratio exMarsy^ in Macedonicis in ' Afupl-reXis auctor est prius 
Acram vocatam fuisse, ac postea Amphipolim," Teste Gronovio 
Animadv. in Stephan. de Urbib. et Popul. p. 78. (lO.) Amsl. 16/8. 
(2) Ibid. 
(3) " L'on voit les mines d'vne ville a I'entree de la bouche de Stri- 
mone, qui est en tout deshabitee : laquelle les paisans du pays nomment 
CHarsopoLi." Premier Liv, des Singular, observees par Belon, feuille 55' 
Paris, 1555. 
