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Others, with a female head, decorated with chap. 
laurel in front, and for reverse a stele within a . '_ . 
laurel chaplet, as the same head appears upon 
the medals of Thessalonica, seem to have 
been struck by Cassander, in honour of his wife, 
the sister of Alexander the Great, and to exhibit 
her portrait. It is not every reader that will 
tolerate a long Numismatic series ; therefore with 
these general observations we shall close the list; 
adding only, that a volume might be written in 
illustration of the medals found at Orphano alone. 
Our course from Orphano {January the third) 
was east-north-east, through the fertile plain of 
Mestania, lying between two chains of moun- 
tains; upon our right and left. It is highly 
cultivated. We saw some neat plantations of Appear- 
tobacco and corn : the wheat looked uncommonly country 
well. Upon the left, or northern side of our fng^tfr^ 
route, were many Turkish villages upon the ^''•i''"''"- 
mountains, situate towards their basis ; distin- 
guished always, as being Turkish, by their 
mosques and tall minarets rising amidst groves 
of cypress and poplar trees. Another proof of a 
Turkish population was afforded in the frequent 
recurrence of public fountains close to the road. 
The reason given to us, why so many villages 
are stationed at a distance from the highway, 
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