A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 126
-ed one hundred years after these figures were sculptured, he shall pour 102 Ancient Garden Swape. [Book 1. water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, (Numb,xxiv, 7,) an intimation that the Israelites should possess a country, wherethis great desideratum should be in… … No. 43. Egyptian Shadoof employed in watering a garden. 1550, B. C. The luxuriance of vegetation in an eastern garden, (when properly water-ed,) the richness of its scenery, the beauty of its foliage and flowers, formone of the most enchanting prospects in nature ; hence it became the mostfavorite,…
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