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IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY.
[Chap. x.
places I have seen beautiful agates used for this purpose.
Three or four people sit or stand upon the board, as it is
dragged over the corn, in consequence of which not only is
the straw destroyed, and almost reduced to chaff, but even
the corn itself is frequently bruised and broken.
Wheat in this state, however, is much eaten by the poorer
classes of Turkish peasants who are unable to procure rice.
In many small towns and villages in the interior a marble
mortar may be seen in some conspicuous place, where the
women pound the wheat with a wooden mallet, for which
purpose it is generally slightly moistened; but a pilaff made
of this bruised wheat or bulgour, is much inferior to one
of rice.
At 2h. 18m. we reached the plain and passed over a mass
of soft, grey, easily decomposing trachyte, which rose to a
high hill on our left. From hence we continued along the
foot of the high mountains on our right as far as Adala,
crossing several deep and winding water-courses now almost
dry. This range of hills, which forms the eastern limit
of the plain of Sardis, and consists of mica-schist and
quartzose rocks, acts as a parapet to support the elevated
plains and terraces of the interior, which, in some places,
are almost on a level with the summits of the hills.
At 3h. 42m. we passed a small village about 200 yards
off on our right, called Dombaili. A supposed similarity
of names has led some persons to imagine without suffi-
cient grounds, that this is the site of the ancient Tabala,
but there can be no doubt that Tabala was at the place
now called Davala beyond Koula. Dombai appears to be
a Turcoman word; and Dombai Ovasi beyond Dineir is
also inhabited by that people. Nothing is to be seen at
Dombaili but the huts of Turcoman peasants, who retire
there during the winter, after having fed their herds and
flocks during the summer months in the rich plains of
Sardis.
After another hour we reached the banks of the Hermus,
which we were obliged to ford. Its width was very con-
IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY.
[Chap. x.
places I have seen beautiful agates used for this purpose.
Three or four people sit or stand upon the board, as it is
dragged over the corn, in consequence of which not only is
the straw destroyed, and almost reduced to chaff, but even
the corn itself is frequently bruised and broken.
Wheat in this state, however, is much eaten by the poorer
classes of Turkish peasants who are unable to procure rice.
In many small towns and villages in the interior a marble
mortar may be seen in some conspicuous place, where the
women pound the wheat with a wooden mallet, for which
purpose it is generally slightly moistened; but a pilaff made
of this bruised wheat or bulgour, is much inferior to one
of rice.
At 2h. 18m. we reached the plain and passed over a mass
of soft, grey, easily decomposing trachyte, which rose to a
high hill on our left. From hence we continued along the
foot of the high mountains on our right as far as Adala,
crossing several deep and winding water-courses now almost
dry. This range of hills, which forms the eastern limit
of the plain of Sardis, and consists of mica-schist and
quartzose rocks, acts as a parapet to support the elevated
plains and terraces of the interior, which, in some places,
are almost on a level with the summits of the hills.
At 3h. 42m. we passed a small village about 200 yards
off on our right, called Dombaili. A supposed similarity
of names has led some persons to imagine without suffi-
cient grounds, that this is the site of the ancient Tabala,
but there can be no doubt that Tabala was at the place
now called Davala beyond Koula. Dombai appears to be
a Turcoman word; and Dombai Ovasi beyond Dineir is
also inhabited by that people. Nothing is to be seen at
Dombaili but the huts of Turcoman peasants, who retire
there during the winter, after having fed their herds and
flocks during the summer months in the rich plains of
Sardis.
After another hour we reached the banks of the Hermus,
which we were obliged to ford. Its width was very con-