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they were each of them eleven feet long, five 
feet high^ and six feet wide. He has also given 
the inscriptions that were upon the two others, 
which we did not see\ According to his 
account of the public donations made by Ibrahim 
Pasha to Cavallo, it appears that Neapolis rose 
again from its ruins under his auspices. The 
inscriptions which he has preserved, as being 
found in the place, are all of them Roman ; but 
this would hardly have happened, if, as he sup- 
posed, the city has existed ever since the time of 
Alexander the Great. Paul Lucas also passed 
through Cavallo\- but neither he, nor subsequent 
travellers, mention having seen here any Greek 
inscription. The other antiquities described 
(3) P C ASPERATRIARIVS MONTANVS EQVO- PVBLICO • HONORATVS 
ITEM ORNAMENTIS • DECVRIONATVS 'eT • INIVRALICIS PONTIFEX 
FLAMAN • DIVI • CLAVDI PHILIPPIS • ANN • XXUI • HIC • 8 • E 
The other contained the name of the mother of Jsprilia, mentioned above : 
CORNELIA LONGA ASPRILIAE • MATER ANN • LX • H • S E 
(4) And the account of his journey proves that the lapse of a 
hundred years has effected no change in the mode of travelling in 
Macedonia. It is really ciwious to observe how accurately the time 
spent by Lucas upon this route corresponds with the rate of our 
progress. He arrived at Cavailo upon the 11th of January, \1\7t. 
" D' Orfan, j'arrivai en sLv heures i Praveste, et irois heures apres k 
la Cavalle." Voyage du Sieur Paw? Z/t«;a5, tome I. p. 91. Jmst^ 
1744. 
