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[[underline]] Chapter XIV. [[/underline]] 294-a.

Philippine Islands for threshing rice. There, however, they seemed to me (without, of course, direct comparison) shorter, heavier, and more clumsily constructed than the ones that we saw here in northern Shansi.

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older and more primitive than ours; but the manner of using the flails was the same, and afforded another illustration of the essential unity underlying