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Vounts Hympus and as a from the Quins of Thessalis.

Engraved by J. C. Bentley.

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Greece? Have we not striven side by side with our fellow-countrymen for the liberty which they now enjoy? Have we not resisted year by year the cruel violence of our present masters, and struggled to shake their yoke from off our necks? We, the inhabitants of the ancient Hellas,-the cradle of Greece, are banished from our own country! Olympus is excluded, and with it the Gods of Greece are exiled from Greece by your treaties! Look,"-pointing from the window as he spoke, at the stream which flows beneath it, which was then very low, and at the mountains capped with snow beyond it," the Peneus has wept itself almost dry for grief, and Mount Olympus has grown old and hoary, for they are both exiles from their own land!"

The remains of the ancient city of Larissa are very inconsiderable; some fragments of the walls of the Hellenic citadel are said to be inclosed by the buildings of the Turkish bazaar. The modern name of the town is identical with the ancient. In the walls of the palace of the Greek Archbishop are inserted many early inscriptions, which principally refer to contracts for the manumission of slaves, and call the attention to the well-known fact, which reflects little honour upon the Thessalian character,

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that the traffic in slaves was here carried on with great activity, and that a considerable portion of the wealth of its former inhabitants was derived from this source. Other ancient inscriptions are supplied by the tombstones, which have been perverted from their original purpose, and now stand over the graves in the Turkish cemeteries of Larissa. One or two of them which we find there are not unworthy of a place in the Greek Anthology. The burying-grounds in which they exist present a singular appearance. They cover a considerable space; their columnar grave-stones of white marble, which are thickly crowded together, generally terminate in a crest or head-dress, which indicates the rank or profession of the person whose monument it is; the Bey, the Mollah, the Cadhi, and the Imam, each has his own badge in this funereal heraldry; the rank of one is expressed by the device of a mural crown, that of another by a conical apex, and of a third by a spherical tiara. The aid of colours is also called in to lend their eloquence to these silent epitaphs.

"Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales
Which Poets of an elder time have feigned
To glorify their TEMPE, bred in me
Desire of visiting that Paradise.

To Thessaly I came, and, living private,

I, day by day, frequented silent groves
And solitary walks."

The character of the celebrated place thus referred to by Ford in his Lover's Melancholy, is best illustrated by a reference to the inscription cut in the rock on the right side of the vale,-" LUCIUS CASSIUS LONGINUS, the PROCONSUL, made the road through TEMPE."

Tempe is a strong and very important military pass. To compare a small work with a great one, Longinus did for it what the Conqueror of Italy has done for the Simplon. It is a narrow rocky defile five miles long, in which there is often room only for the Peneus and a caravan to travel side by side. The ledge of rock between the inscription specified above, and the level of the stream, is only four feet in breadth, and the steps hewn in its surface, which is furrowed by the wheels of military waggons, are the result of the pioneering labour which that inscription is meant to commemorate. It was a suitable work for a general of Julius Cæsar to facilitate the communication from Thessaly to Macedonia, from Greece to the world beyond it. The vale is, as its name indicates, a cleft or chasm; a deep natural canal, as its

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