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Updated: June 10, 2025
Wind-mills and water-mills followed naturally in the train of the hand-mills. Wheat but little availed for food in early days, being frequently blighted. Oats were raised in considerable quantity, a pill-corn or peel-corn or sil-pee variety.
"No, the peat answers their purpose much better," said Will. "It burns slowly, and gives out a good deal of heat for a long time." "And the smell of it is so delicious," added Greta. A little further on; the children came out on an open space, which gave them a good view of the surrounding flat country, and of the wind-mills that stand about Zaandam a forest of towers. It was a marvelous sight.
From the spot where the yacht lay at anchor, the town of Elsineur had an imposing appearance; and, besides the number of fishing-vessels which kept popping out of the harbour, one by one, round the pier-head, at this early time, amidst the shouts and merry laughter of their crews, betokening the light hearts with which they went forth to their daily labour, the wind-mills on the tops of the neighbouring hills, outvying each other in velocity, showed that the inhabitants entertained, at least, habits of industry, and were not, perhaps, unacquainted with the advantages of traffic.
And then there are wind-mills; but everybody knows that wind-mills, though they do stand on the tops of hills, in spite of their great long arms stuck out, are of no use if the wind does not blow.
The hill-top, close under the floating figure of Jehovah, has been crowned with a wind-mill because wind-mills abounded anciently on the hill-tops of Provence. To the mill, naturally, has been added a miller who is riding down the road on an ass, with a sack of flour across his saddle-bow that he is carrying as a gift to the Holy Family.
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