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the south-ivest towards the north-east. Upon our chap. 
left, but rather behind our route towards the _. 
west, we saw a very high mountain covered with 
snow, called Nevroscope; and directly to the 
left of us, bearing north-iuest, another mountain, 
called Drama. In passing Drama, to our sub- Drama. 
sequent mortification, we also passed the ruins 
of Philippi; without being aware, at the time, PhiUppi. 
of the loss we had sustained : although had we 
attempted to deviate from the main route, it 
might have been impracticable ; such was the 
rebellious and distracted state of the country at 
the time of our journey, when almost every 
place was infested either by rapacious insur- 
gents or by banditti. Drama is mentioned, 
not as a mountain, but as the name of a town, 
in the very curious History of Constantinople y 
written at the end of the twelfth and beginning 
of the thirteenth century, by Geoffroy de Fille- 
Hardouin, who places it in the Valley of 
Philippi*; so called from the city of that name, 
(S) The Reader may be pleased by a specimen of the original text; 
to which we shall subjoin the modern version, as published by Du Fresne, 
at Puris, in 1657. 
" En icel termine li Marchis Bonifaces de Montserrat remut de 
Salenique, si s'en alia a la Scrre que Johannis li avoit abatuo, si la 
refenna ; et ferma apres une autre qui a nom Dramine el val de 
i'/'ielippe. 
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