DEFILE OF TEMPE. 365: 
enriches the inhabitants, but has given rise to a chap. 
commerce so considerable, that whole caravans - 
are laden with this cotton for the markets of 
Pest, Fiennay Leipsic, Dresden, &c.; and hardly a 
day passes without some exports being made, 
which are carried even to Hamburgh. The 
fabric for dyeing the cotton, however, causes 
such a consumption of wood, that it will make 
a sad havoc among the natural beauties of the 
Fale of Tempe. 
We shall now briefly describe the process. 
used in preparing the cotton for exportation ;. 
referring our readers, for more particular in-- 
formation, to the valuable work oi Felix Beauj our 
upon the '' Commerce of Greece;'' where the 
subject is treated with all possible minuteness, 
and, at the same time, with a degree of accu- 
racy that entitles its author to the highest 
credit ^ About this time the merchants of 
Ampeldkia began to feel the effect of the pre- Effect of 
- . r\ 1 1 J • 1 the English 
ference given to English cotton-thread m the cottoiT- 
German markets ; and it was a subject of their 
complaint. " They foresaw,' they said, " thaf 
the superior skill of the English maniifacturers, and 
(2) Tableau du Commerce de la Grece, &;c. par F^Ujc Beavjour, 
Ex-Consul en Grece. i torn. a Paiis, 1800. 
