97, 316,) Max sigli, (Stato Militare del Imperio Ottomano, p.

130.) The sanjak of Giustendil is one of the twenty under the beglerbeg of Rurselis, and his district maintains 48 zaims and 588 timariots.] [Footnote 115: These fortifications may be compared to the castles in Mingrelia (Chardin, Voyages en Perse, tom.i.p.60, 131)--a natural picture.] [Footnote 116: The valley of Tempe is situate along the River Peneus, between the hills of Ossa and Olympus: it is only five miles long, and in some places no more than 120 feet in breadth.

Its verdant beauties are elegantly described by Pliny, (Hist.Natur.l.iv.

15,) and more diffusely by Aelian, (Hist.Var.l.iii.c.

i.)] [Footnote 117: Xenophon Hellenic.l.iii.c.2.