36 FROM THESSALONICA, 
CHAP, was this; that the Turkish soldiers always 
._■ plunder, and sometimes ruin, a town or village, 
in passing through it; and therefore a situation 
is preferred which is not liable to their ravages. 
After riding four hours, we came to a khan, 
Kunarga. called KunargQ, and saw fragments of antient 
columns near the spot. The whole of our 
journey through this plain was extremely 
agreeable. The mountains upon our left were 
very high and massy, but not covered with 
snow. There were many Turkish coemeteries 
near the road ; and in these we observed 
several antient columns. At the end of the 
plain there were not less than six or seven foun- 
tains upon one spot, shaded by large plane-trees. 
Here we were not far distant from the ruins of 
Philippi, upon the slope of a mountain to the 
left of our rout : possibly therefore this groupe 
of fountains, so remarkably distinguished by 
the venerable grove beneath which they appear, 
may have been the same whence that city 
Krenides. dcrivcd its auticut appellation of KPHNIAE2; 
because this name was not applicable to its 
fountains within the city, but to those in its 
vicinity'. They poured forth such copious 
(1) 0/ Vt OIAinnoi, woy.if Utiv, n AATC2 uvcfjiaZ,iTO ■xra.Xai, nai 
KPHNIAE2 in srga AATOT" x^ijiiai ya^ iliri Ti^i <rai Xetpat vctfiuiraiv rSr waKXai. 
