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A sixth sort, yiuko<riri 9 is like qovo-o-ius, but white and shining. It is 

 so called from yuxXi'geiv to shine. 



A seventh sort is Silvio. This is sown in the first part of 

 March, and is a kind of spring corn ; they begin sowing the other 

 sort in the mountains in the middle of October, and in the plains in 

 November and December, and even in some strong grounds so late 

 as January. Weeding, vol QoTuvigu, is performed by women, who are 

 paid ten paras a-day for their labour, at least once or twice before the 

 culmus is grown, the Kuxdptov. This operation is very tedious, being 

 performed by the hand. The harvest begins early in June, first 

 the barley, then the wheat of the mountains, then that of the plain ; 

 the return is from five to ten for one. A bacillo of land is sown with 

 a bacillo of corn ; a bacillo of land is four hundred square feet ; a 

 bacillo of corn weighs seventy pounds of Venetian measure. 



BGEOTIA. 



The soil of Livadea is much richer than that of Attica ; the villages 

 in Bceotia are more numerous, and in general larger; they were 

 said to be at least 70 in number. The soil being moist and rich 

 is not suitable to the olive ; but produces wheat of an excellent 

 quality, and great quantity of Calamboki or Indian corn. The 

 following articles are the principal objects of cultivation. ZiTtzpi, 

 wheat*, of this there are four sorts, kokxivoo-iti, povoXoyi, $iuvivia 9 and 

 fiXaxoo-Tcipt. The first of these species is the most generally cultivated ; 

 the last is sown principally in the mountains. 



ApoifiotriTt Indian corn ; there are two sorts ; cto-TrpoxocXotpfioKt, and 



Botpfidxi, cotton ; there are two sorts, nroTicrTtKo and T^epixo. 



Kptdap/, barley; Kcujc/«, beans; Keyxph millet, two sorts, kIt^vo, and 



Wheat retains in Laconia its ancient name, irvpo;. 



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