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The town of Sarapha, biblical Sarepta, with cotton crops.

Threshing in the village of Ahmet Aga (Prokopi) in Euboea.

Traditional costumes of Inegi in Cappadocia.

Agricultural implement for the joint purpose of threshing and of cutting the straw.

Plough.

Spade and shovel.

Whip used for the collection of labdanum.

Tower (stately home) in Miraka, Elis.

View of the valley of ancient Olympia, called Antilalos in the 19th century.

Young woman from Provence carrying lemons.

Agricultural activities in the plain of Troy.

View of Erenköy, Asia Minor.

Beehives.

Peasant plowing, Santorini.

Farmes plowing, Acrotiri (Chania).

Peasant plowing at Askyfou plateau, Crete.

Peasants plowing at Askyfou plateau, Crete.

Olive harvest, Preveli, Crete.

Wind mill at Preveli Monastery, Crete.

View of the Sacred Way (Hiera Odos), which connects Athens to Eleusis.

Mounts Olympus and Ossa, from the plains of Thessaly.

Town of Zakynthus.

Tripolisa.

View of the Temple of Apollo at ancient Corinth.

View of the temple of Hephaestus in Athens. In the foreground, Arvanite peasants threshing corn under the supervision of a Muslim servant who is escorting his master's son. On the left, Arvanites in provisional hut (kalyvi).

Views of the Monasteries of Saint Paul the Anchorite and Saint Anthony.

View of Bunarbaşı, village, erroneously identified in the nineteenth-century with Troy. In the foreground the court of the House of the Ottoman Aga, where the author stayed during his visit.

Ottomans supervising slaves, taken captive in the war, during agricultural work.

Kirklareli (in Greek Saranta Ekklisies), Eastern Thrace.

Feast of St. Jason and Sosipatros in Corfu island.