There is greater picturesqueness--but, as usual, accompanied with less efficiency--in the southern part of Europe, as, for instance, in Spain. Here, aside from the jib flying mills of the [Illustration: Hybrid type of grist mill, 1682. Saumur, France.] [Illustration: Crude forms of tower grist mills; vicinity of Buda-Pesth, Hungary.] Mediterranean, we find primitive construction, crude devices and even the clay water bottles, or jars, bound to a cumbrous wheel, slowly turning over by wind power, for lifting water for irrigation, similar to devices seen on the banks of the Nile--although there operated by oxen. And in Spain we tread the country where the ever immortal Don Quixote, despite the adjurations of the faithful Sancho Panzo, charged at full speed a flock of windmills on the plains of Montiel. [Illustration: Mid-European type of post mill. Belgium.] The crude structures of Greece and Turkey, already mentioned, are so crude that often no device is provided for turning to the wind, but, on the contrary, four mills are sometimes built in a field, facing, respectively, north, south, east and west; so that whichever way the wind comes some power can be secured. It is, however, more likely that prevailing winds are so constant from one quarter there is but little use for a turning device, resulting in its omission. [Illustration: Tower mill. Trapani, Sicily.] And so one can go the world over and find these old mills; to the Barbadoes, where they are still extensively used--and of English type--for crushing sugar cane; to Jamaica, where they once were, as shown by an old print of the earthquake of 1792, in which several mills are depicted bodily upside down almost, as would be a child’s toy; to Peru, where over 13,000 feet above sea level in the Potosi silver mining districts of past times--centuries past--old prints show mills of the manifest Spanish type operating stamps for crushing silver ore; to the St. Lawrence, where the early settlers, both French and English, left their imprint in the shape of old mills on several promontories and points; to southern Illinois, where the German emigrants of the [Illustration: Multi-jib tower mill. Samos, Turkey in Asia.] [Illustration: Tower of the old Newport mill, of 1675, as now standing. Truro Park, Newport, R. I.] 1820’s and ’30’s brought with them the mills of the Fatherland, etc. In all quarters of the globe the world’s chief motor for eight centuries can still be found. [Illustration: Chesterton mill, vertical section between columns.]