Note 1779 — Chapter VI · PASTORAL LIFE.
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The same habits still prevail: “We could discern fires on Lesbos as before on several islands and capes, made chiefly by fishermen and shepherds, who live much abroad in the air, to burn the strong stalks of the Turkey wheat and the dry herbage on the mountains.” Chandler, i. 11. Cf. p. 320.