:i08 DEFILE OF TEMPE. 
CHAP, the dye. It is frequently dipped in a sapo^ 
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- ^- . naceous lye, made with oil and a weak solu- 
tion of soda. The cotton is trodden in this so'- 
lution, during several days successively; being 
also carefully rinsed and dried as often as it is 
taken out of the lye'. They also use a small 
portion of sheeps'-dung in preparing the lye. 
After this, it is dyed in the madder ; and lastly, 
to fix and heighten the colour, it is boiled in 
another lye of soda. The French, who long ago 
endeavoured to establish a fabric for dyeing 
cotton at Montpelier, and who borrowed the art 
originally from the Greeks, pretend to have met 
with success by adopting a process very similar 
to that which is here described*. 
In the course of this evening, the inhabitants 
shewed to us several antient medals, found 
either in the place or in its neighbourhood. 
Many of them were similar to what we had seen 
in Larisstty but some were new to us. There 
(1) Dr. Holland says, the cottons are first exposed to tbree )} es, of 
soda, ashes, and lime, mixed in nearly equal quantities ; then follows 
a soda bath, and afterwards a process of " galling and aluming :" after 
this, the dye is g^iveu, which isfinally perfected by a bath alcalized with 
soda; the lye being made to boil until the colour takes its proper tint. 
See Holland's Travels, ^c. p. 289 {Note). Land. 1815. 
(2) Tableau du Coram, de la Gr^ce, p. 287. Note (l). 
