. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. n Scripture. I> Deut. xxv. 4. VOL. I. 2 1 cclviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [CHAr. VII. driving oxen over the corn. He compares the slaughter made by the horses and chariot ofAchilles to the beating out of grain by the trampling of oxen : — As when the peasant his yokd steers employsTo tread his barley, the broad-fronted pairWith ponderous hoofs soon triturate the grain —So, bearing terrible Achillea on,His coursers stampd together, as they passd,The bodies and the bucklers of the It was also one of the
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. n Scripture. I> Deut. xxv. 4. VOL. I. 2 1 cclviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [CHAr. VII. driving oxen over the corn. He compares the slaughter made by the horses and chariot ofAchilles to the beating out of grain by the trampling of oxen : — As when the peasant his yokd steers employsTo tread his barley, the broad-fronted pairWith ponderous hoofs soon triturate the grain —So, bearing terrible Achillea on,His coursers stampd together, as they passd,The bodies and the bucklers of the It was also one of the modes in use among the Romans. Among them, however, horseswere preferred to oxen for this work,b and there can be no doubt of their superior adaptationto it; but the Hebrews for many ages had no horses, and when they had, did not soon learnto employ them in any agricultural labour. Neither did the Egyptians. But horses appearto have been employed for threshing in the time of At the present time the custom of threshing by the treading of animals is common in. [Threshing by Animals.] Northern Africa, and several parts of the East; but horses are more employed than oxen. Inthis case a strong post is planted in the centre of the threshing-floor, with a movable woodenring at top, through which passes the cord that yokes the animals, and which can he lengthenedor shortened at pleasure, so as to make them move round in a wider or narrower Shaw, in describing the practice of the Moors and Arabs of Barbary, states : Thesenations continue to tread out their corn after the primitive custom of the East. Instead ofbeeves they frequently make use of mules and horses, by tying, in like manner, by the neck,three or four of them together, and whipping them afterwards round about the nedders,d asthey call the threshing-floors, where the sheaves lie open and expanded, in the same manneras they are placed and prepared by us for threshing. This, indeed, is a much quicker way
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