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2 MOUNT LACMOS, OR ZYGO, THE CENTRE
In our introduction to the present work, wc shall endeavour to present
to the reader a rapid sketch of the geography of Greece, similar in execution
to the bronze tablet which Aristagoras put into the hands of Cleomenes.
We shall attempt to exhibit to him, in a comprehensive and general outline,
the forms of its land, and seas, and rivers. This difference, however, we will
aim to observe: we design to construct a map from a view of the country
itself, rather than to communicate an idea of the country from the contem-
plation of a map.
For this purpose, we will take our station on one of the most command-
ing heights of that long range of mountains which, running from north to
south in an uninterrupted line, nearly bisects the continent of Greece.
This chain, formerly known by the name of Pindus, is, as it were, the
spine or back-bone of that country. Its successive vertebra; are distin-
guished by different appellations. That which we have chosen as the point
to which we shall now particularly refer, is at present termed Zygo, re-
sembling, in name, the Helvetian Joch, which separates the valley of
Engelberg from that of Meyringen. It was formerly called Lacmos; and
stands in 39° 50' north latitude, and 21° 20' east longitude. It hangs over
the town of Metzovo, which is familiar to all travellers who have passed
from Iannina over Mount Pindus, in an eastward course, on their road
either to Larissa or to Thessalonica.
The height of Zygo we will venture to call the most remarkable in the
In our introduction to the present work, wc shall endeavour to present
to the reader a rapid sketch of the geography of Greece, similar in execution
to the bronze tablet which Aristagoras put into the hands of Cleomenes.
We shall attempt to exhibit to him, in a comprehensive and general outline,
the forms of its land, and seas, and rivers. This difference, however, we will
aim to observe: we design to construct a map from a view of the country
itself, rather than to communicate an idea of the country from the contem-
plation of a map.
For this purpose, we will take our station on one of the most command-
ing heights of that long range of mountains which, running from north to
south in an uninterrupted line, nearly bisects the continent of Greece.
This chain, formerly known by the name of Pindus, is, as it were, the
spine or back-bone of that country. Its successive vertebra; are distin-
guished by different appellations. That which we have chosen as the point
to which we shall now particularly refer, is at present termed Zygo, re-
sembling, in name, the Helvetian Joch, which separates the valley of
Engelberg from that of Meyringen. It was formerly called Lacmos; and
stands in 39° 50' north latitude, and 21° 20' east longitude. It hangs over
the town of Metzovo, which is familiar to all travellers who have passed
from Iannina over Mount Pindus, in an eastward course, on their road
either to Larissa or to Thessalonica.
The height of Zygo we will venture to call the most remarkable in the