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to make any careful inquiries for medals ; but chap. 
we observed other antiquities of more or less v .y ■> 
note. A very large aqueduct still remains upon 
two tiers of arches, and in perfect order : 
it now conducts water from Mount Pang^eus 
to the citadel. Two precipices of this mountain, 
which D'Anville considers as a branch detached 
from Rhodope\ approach so near the sea, as to 
form narrow defiles on its beach, the passages 
of which were once closed and defended by 
walls. These brows of the mountain are now 
called Castagnas: and opposite to a point, 
directly under the farthest of these Castagnas, 
lies the Isle of Thasus ; famous for its quarries 
of a splendid luhite marble, which in all respects 
resembles the Parian -. 
(1) See D'Anville's Ant. Geog. Part 1. pp. 201,202. Land. 1791. 
(2) Caryophilus therefore calls it Aivxii(pctTi>s. Vide Citryophilum, 
Lib. de Martnor. Antiq. Traj. ad Rhen. 1743. 
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