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Full text of "Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813 towards the sea. The submission of the Thessalians happily prevented this royal outrage upon humanity. Eustathius, in his commentary on the 17th Iliad, mentions the clearance of the waters from the plain of Thessaly by the open- ing of Tempe. V.A.L.E O.F TEMPE. 19 was thus opened, it may be conceived not unlikely that the convulsion of an earthquake had the effect of deepening the channel, and thereby of carrying off the waters from the plain. The memory of the event, however accom- plished, was preserved by an annual festival of the ancient towns and villages at the western entrance of Tempe, of which we have an interesting de-

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