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south, and were not more than half an hour in crossing them ; 
when we descended again into the great plain of the lake, and 
passed close to the large and populous village of Deez. The 
road was excellent, and the natives busy carrying their corn 
harvest; for the conveyance of which they use a very clumsy 
sort of cart, on two solid wheels, while the body and pole take 
a long triangular shape. 
I have been over many vast level tracts in Persia, but this is 
the only one where I found so useful an assistant of husbandry. 
Like the cart of the Philistines, mentioned in the Book of 
Samuel, as not being drawn by horses or mules, but by milch 
kine, so this rather clumsy vehicle is drawn by oxen or buffaloes. 
About a mile farther, we passed the village of Mateck Kanly, 
where the inhabitants were parting their corn from the straw, 
in much the same manner described in a former part of my 
journal; the beasts walking over it in a regular circle, while 
yoked to a pole attached to the axis of a spiked cylinder. 
Ten miles farther march on the plain brought us to the village 
