DEFILE OF TEMPE. 359 
where no one would look for the haunts of chap. 
IX. 
active industry, it carries on an extensive com- • - ^ 
merce, the effects of which were once severely 
felt by our own manufacturers in Britain. We 
left the main route to visit this village, and 
ascended, from Baba, a part of Mount Ossa. 
The way up is by a paved road ; and it is full 
of a green chlorite schistus, containing veins 
of white marble and of white quartz. In the 
description of Larissa, fragments of the Verde- Natural 
antico w-ere said to have been observed in the the verd»- 
pavements of the city, and that the substance Maiibie. 
itself existed in the neighbourhood. It was to 
this part of Tempe that allusion was then in- 
tended ; reserving for the account of the place 
itself, any further notice of the discovery of 
this beautiful mineral, in its natural state; 
because it is singularly connected with the 
antient geography of the country. That the 
antients obtained their green marble from this 
place, we shall endeavour to prove. Quarries 
might now be wrought' for the Verde-aniico in 
tiiis part of Mount Ossa. Those parts of the 
mountain which are above the dejlle consist, in 
many places, of green schistus veined and spotted 
(l) It has lately been fouud in Anglesea; and a very considerable 
manufacture of this marble has coramenced in London, 
