The scenery on the Avon is said strikingly to resemble the vale of Tempe in Greece.

I inquired for letters at the post-offices in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and Tempe at every chance, but finally gave up in despair.

Philip, impatient and confident as he was, could not endure to await the enemy on the Macedonian frontier: after assembling his army at Dium, he advanced through the pass of Tempe into Thessaly, and encountered the army of the enemy advancing to meet him in the district of Scotussa.

This is followed by the "Elysian Tempe of Stourhead," the seat of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, to whose talents and benevolence Mr. Bowles pays a merited tribute.

I can not find Tempe on the map; but many names have been changed since those days.

In the mean time, Pompey passed on through the Vale of Tempe toward the sea, regardless of the beauty and splendor that surrounded him, and thinking only of his fallen fortunes, and revolving despairingly in his mind the various forms in which the final consummation of his ruin might ultimately come.

But I felt as I did that night when I returned to Tempe after my first summer on the canalfull of hope and anticipation, and yet with a feeling in my heart that again something would stand in my way.

Over Earth, and over Being, Over many glories of the Past, Remorseless floods are flowing fierce and fast, Snatching sun-lighted Tempes from our seeing, Rolling their dreary surges o'er the shore, Where Love had hoped to dwell for evermore.