A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 117
Chap . 13 . ] The Picotah . 97 eise by a thwart post , poised with a sufficient weight at the extremity laid over one fixed in the earth ; the water is drawn bv a bücket of goat ’ s skin . ” a In some districts , the Hindoos have a mode of working the Swape , which , so far as we know , is peculiar… … No . 37 . Picotah of Hindostan . borer alternately Steps on and off the swape , from a ladder or stage of bamboos erected on one side of it See plate 23 , Sonnerat . The apparatus and mode of working it , is more fully described in the following extract from ‘ Shoberl ’ s Hindostan in Miniature . ’…
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