66 . FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, marble placed evenly together without any 
- cement. In the walls of the church we saw 
some large slabs of Thasian marble, finely 
grooved, as for the ornaments of a Heathen 
temple. The modern name of this ruin is Boar 
Kalis. We shall perhaps be also able to ascer- 
tain its antient appellation and history ; for we 
have already atforded data sufficient to prove, 
Ruins of that this was the Citadel o^ Bistoxia ; and that 
BisConia. 
the lake was the Palus Bistonis. We procured 
a few coins upon the spot ; but they gave us no 
information, being all of them either Cuphic or 
ecclesiastical. But the situation of so considera- 
ble a lake in this part of Thrace, added to the 
appearance of an ecclesiastical ruin among the 
vestiges of a more antient citadel, will guide us 
to the name of the original inhabitants to whom 
they belonged, and prove them to have been 
the Bistonians, a people mentioned by Herodotus, 
through whose territory Xerxes marched, in his 
way to invade Greece \ Bistoxia was an 
Episcopal See, within the Archbishopric of 
(I) IlaiTei, Kiitin;, BiffTtfif, m. r. X. (lib. vii. c. 110. p. 415.) The 
lake is alluded to by Herodotus, and its situation very distinctij 
marked. The city of Dicsa stood towards the maritime border of it. 
Two rivers ran into it, called Travus and Compsatus : Kara il Aixxlmt, 
BISTHNIAA, Is rht roraftoi Sua iitiiffi to Sit/f, j^auet n kx'i Kifi\^aTt{. 
Herodot. Hist. lib. vii. c. 109, p. 415. ed. Gronov. L. Bat. 1715. 
