A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 47
greatelegance and beauty, bearing a vessel on her head, leading a horse by abridle fastened round her arm, and at the same time spinning some thread.Darius viewed her as she passed, with attentive curiosity, observing thather employments were not those of a Persian, Lydian, nor indeed of anyAsiatic… … Chap. 3.] Canopus. 23 and then filled her pitcher : having done this, she returned by the wayshe came, with the pitcher of water on her head, the horse fastened by abridle to her arm, and as before, employed in spinning. Industrious labor is an ornament to every young woman—indeed nei-ther the…
Pumping machinery
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