Note 1745 — Chapter V · THE VARIOUS PROCESSES OF AGRICULTURE.

Xenoph. Œconom. xviii. 4. The same custom still prevails in Southern Europe and in the East. “Corn is trodden out in Granada in circular-formed threshing-floors, in the open fields; the animals employed are mules or oxen.” Napier, Excursions, &c., i. 156. Again, in the Troad, “The oxen or horses being harnessed to a sort of sledge, the bottom part of which is armed with sharp flints, are driven over the corn, the person who guides the cattle balancing him or herself with great dexterity whilst rapidly drawn round in revolving circles.” Id. ii. 171. Cf. Fowler, Three Years in Persia, i. 173, and Chandler, i. 320. ii. 234.