in Britain," pp. 268,
275.

[170] See Wilkinson, "Ancient Egyptians," vol. iii. p.
116; Yates, p. 23.

[171] It appears that the art of printing textiles was
known in Egypt in the time of Pliny. See Yates, p. 272,
quoting Apuleius, Met. l. xi.; also see Wilkinson,
"Ancient Egyptians," vol. ii. p. 196, pl. xii.

[172] See Yates, "Textrinum Antiquorum," pp. 268, 335;
Herodotus, ii. 86. Herodotus and Strabo speak of
Babylonian linen, cited by Yates, p. 281.

[173] "Textrinum Antiquorum," pp. 267-80. A peculiarity
of Egyptian linen is that it was often woven with more
threads in the warp than in the woof. A specimen in the
Indian Museum, South Kensington, shows in its delicate
texture 140 threads in the inch to the warp, and 64 to
the woof. Another piece of fine linen has 270 to the
warp, and 110 to the woof. Generally there are twice or
three times as many threads, but sometimes even four
times the number. Wilkinson gives a probable reason for
this peculiarity. See Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians,"
vol. i. chap. ix. pp. 121-226. See Rock's Introduction,
p. xiv.

[174] De Somniis, vol. i. p. 653. Yates, p. 271.

[175] Philo, cited by Yates, p. 271.

[176] Paulinus ad Cytherium, cited by Yates, p. 273.

[177] Herodotus, l. ii. c. 182, l. iii. c. 47.
Rawlinson's Trans.

[178] Proverbs vii. 16.

[179] Yates, p. 291. Denon describes a tunic found in a
sarcophagus, which he examined, and says: "The weaving
was extremely loose, of thread as fine as a hair, of two
strands of twisted flax fibre."--Auberville's "Ornement
des Tissus," p. 4. Some marvellously fine specimens of
such cambric may be seen at the South Kensington Museum
and the British Museum.

[180] Not that we have any remains of flax linen from
their tombs.

[181] It was carried thence, at a prehistoric date, to
Assyria and Egypt.

[182] There is no proof that it was grown in Egypt till
the fourteenth century A.D., when it is mentioned for
the first time in a MS. of that date of the "Codex
Antwerpianus." See Yates, Appendix E, p. 470.

[183] Birdwood, p. 241.

[184] Puggaree. Yates says that cotton has always been
supposed to be the best preserver against sunstroke, p.
341.

[185] _Carpas_, the proper Oriental name for cotton, is
found in the same sen