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are covered with vineyards, and its wine is the 
best flavoured of any that we tasted in Greece. 
It is of a red colour, and resembles claret. The 
town consists of four hundred houses \ as it 
were hanging upon this side of Mount Ossa, 
above the Pass o^Tempe: it contains no Turkish 
inhabitants, and enjoys a state of freedom, 
forcibly contrasted with the condition of other 
places in the same neighbourhood, although 
not exempted from imposts. We might almost 
have imagined ourselves to be in Germany. The 
inhabitants are many of them from that country ; 
and they are a thriving, healthy-looking people. 
They wear the Eastern dress ; but they have 
introduced many foreign manners and customs 
among those of Greece. Some German mer- 
chants, upon our arrival, sent to us the last 
Frankfort Gazettes ; and soon afterwards they 
paid us a visit. As we intended to pass the 
night here, we accompanied them to see their 
Manufac. staplc manufactory for dyeing cotton-thread of 
a red colour^ which not only supports and 
(l) Beaujour reckons the population at 4000 souls, — " living," as 
he happily expresses it, " like bees in a hive." We state the number 
of houses as it was given to us by the merchants of the place. If 
Beaujonr's account of the population be not exaggerated, the number 
of the houses is possibly greater. ^0?/. Tabl, du Comm. de la Grece, 
p.T>^. Paris, XmO. 
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