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fist, and look like a coarse manufacture of com- 
mon pipe-clay ; all the lustre and elegance 
which they afterwards exhibit being the result 
of subsequent manipulation in Hungary and in 
Germany. There is perhaps no instance of any 
kind of clay giving employment to so many 
hands, or after its original manufacture passing 
through such a variety of modifications, and 
ultimately obtaining such enormous prices : 
therefore, as we have obtained further infor- 
mation respecting its natural history, we shall 
add a few remarks to those already published* 
upon the subject of this curious mineral. 
This remarkable clay, which the Turks call Localities 
^ . of this 
Pataal Task, is by them believed to exist only mineral, 
in three different places; Nemehj Kiry, Cara 
Yook, and Saca Koy ; near a town in ^sia 
Minor, called Eski Shchr, or Old City ; supposed 
by some to be the antientHiERAPOLis, between 
Phrygia and Lydia' : but Hierapolis is called by 
(2) See Vol. II. of these Travels, Chap. vii. p. 282, &c. Octavo edit. 
(3) For the first part of these obiervations respecting the Adalic 
locality of this clay, the author is indebted to Mr. Hawkins, to whom 
the information was communicated, in a letter to the Dragoman Plsani, 
written at Urusa. Tlie situation of Hierapolis is here given from 
Slephanus Bysantinus -, who says of it, 'lEPAIIOAlS, fi.iTa,%v ^^vyias ««< 
Ai/S/e; roXjs, x. T. X. (S/e;)/*. Lib. de Urbib. &c, p. 411. ed. Serkelii, 
L.Sat. 
