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Full text of "Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813 a valley of some breadth, through which flow one of two small rivers, and ascended afterwards a low ridge of hil], on which stood the town of Kitros. This town is upon, or very near to the site of Pydna -, a city rendered remarkable as the scene of that battle in which P. Emilius defeated Perseus, and destroyed the kingdom of Macedon. The im- mediate place of action was in the valley, and on the banks of the streams mentioned above, the ancient names of which were the son and Lycus. * The nature of the ground in its present * See Plut. in vit. L. P. iEmilii. — It appears from Strabo that the name of Pydna was changed to Kkron before hie time, D 2 36 TUTROS. state accurately accords
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