SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 
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The business of the harvest had, however, .chap- 
aroused some of them into a state of activity. 
As we continued our journey, we found them 
occupied in collecting it. They beat out their 
corn as soon as it is gathered. Their mode 
may rather be called trampling than thrashing. 
After selecting an even spot of ground, they fix 
a pole or a stake into the earth, placing the corn 
in a circle around it, so as to form a circum- 
ference of about eight or nine yards in diameter : 
they then attach a horse by a long cord to the 
pole, and continue driving him round and round 
upon the corn, until the cord is wound upon the 
pole ; after this, turning his head in an opposite 
direction, he is again set going, until the cord 
be untwisted. By this process they do not 
fail to obtain the whole of the corn clean from 
the sheaf; but the straw is destroyed. The 
chaff is afterwards collected, and carefully 
housed for fodder. They carry their corn upon 
horses ; but their manner of reaping and mowing, 
and of forming enclosures, resembles our own. 
The approach to slloupka, a village beautifully 
situate near the shore, is entirely concealed 
from view, by groves of fruit-trees. The 
scenery, everywhere along the coast, will 
admit of no comparison with any other maritime 
district. Such fertility and rural beauty are, 
