$6 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, by Belon are rather characteristic of a Roman 
II. 
' than of a Grecian colony ; namely, the cisterns 
of hardened cement, like what is found at 
Baice\ In short, there seems to be little 
ground for believing that the observations he 
has deduced from Pliny and Mela, to prove 
that this town was Boucephala, can be applied 
to Cavalh : but, to increase the confusion thus 
introduced into the geography of Macedonia, 
he has also maintained that its more antient 
name was Chalastra (by him written Chalastrea^,) 
a town situate upon one of the Macedonian 
laJies\ towards the Thermean Gulph*. With 
much more reason might he have called it 
Phagres ; because Thucydides relates ^ that 
when the Pierians were expelled their country, 
they inhabited a town of that name under 
Pang^uSj and beyond the Strymon. 
(1) " Ces cisternes antiques sont faites de si fort cimeut, qu'elles 
ne prendront non plus fin, que fera une pierre de marbre dur." 
Belon. liv.i. c. 5?. f.58. Par. 1555. 
(2) Ibid. f. 57. 
(3) XaXaiT-rfflsrov yi'r^ey, atro 'K.aXa.(rT^a.i t?s {»■ lHaxilena Xlfiytis. 1. £• 
ChalastrEeum nitrum, a Chalastra Macedonia; palude. Suidas. Vide 
Annot. Gronov. in Stephan. lib. de Urbib. p. 710. (12.) 
(4) IIsj/ T?iv0£j^ar«vxoA.iro». Stephan. de Urbib. &c. p. 710. jimst.1678. 
(5) ' AtiaffT^a'atTt; f-^XV '* f"^^ Tlit^ias Il/s^ce;, el vfTt^o» vjri ri 
Tliyyimv wsgay Xr^Uftotii; uxtjffccv '^ay^nrcc, xai aX-Xa ^^i'"^- TllUCt/dides, 
lib. ii. cap. 99. p. 144. ed. Hudsoni. Oxov. 1C96. 
