Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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and everything around, to have met with its reward. The

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implements for spinning and the mode of using them are
precisely those seen represented in the vases and sculptures
of the ancient Greeks. I observed the same mode through-
out the country, the store of wool being sometimes placed
within the capacious sash or shawl, instead of on the distaff.
The men are often employed in spinning the goats' hair and
coarse wool for making their tents. We made our purchases
of bread, flour, wine, and eggs, and the basin of water
received the small return for our stores, and horses were
brought to us in the morning.

I was not able to examine closely the ruins of Priene, but
saw many old walls covering an extensive slope of a hill, out

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