 | 1806 - 504 pages
...out a plug, that is fixed in th« bottom of one of these cisterns ; and then the water gushing out, is conducted from one rill to another, by the gardener;...with his foot, and opening at the same time, with his mat-' tock, a new trench to receive it. This method of conveying moisture and nourishment to a land... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...bottoms of the cisterns, [wherein they preserve the water of the Nile] and then the water gushing out is conducted from one rill to another, by the gardener,...torrent, by turning the earth against it -with his font, and opening, at the same time with his mattock, a new trench to receive it. This method of conveying... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...bottoms of the cisterns, [wherein they preserve the water of the Nile] and then the water gushing out is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who is VOL. i. E always ready, as occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turning the earth... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pages
...bottoms of the cisterns, [wherein they preserve the water of the Nile] and then the water gushing out is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who is VOL. i. £ always ready, as occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turning the earth... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...melons, sugar-canes, &c. there planted in rills, require lo be refreshed. Ou this the water gushing out is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener,...occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turuing the earth against it with his foot, and opening at the same time with his mattock, a new trench... | |
 | Catherine Hutton - 1819 - 488 pages
...struck out, and the water is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who stops and diverts the torrent, by turning the earth against it with his foot, and opening a new trench to receive it with his mattock. This method was practised here in the days of Moses, who... | |
 | Walter Whiter - 1822 - 768 pages
...bottoms of the cisterns (wherein they preserve the water of the Nile) -, and " then the water gushing out is conducted from one Rill to another by the gardener,...his Foot / and opening, at the same time, with his mattoek, a new trench " to receive it." Mr. Parkhurst objects to this interpretation, since the process... | |
 | 1824 - 812 pages
...strike out the plugs that are fixed in the bottom of the cisterns ; and then the water gushing out is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener,...occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, In/ turning the earth against it, by his foot, and opening, at the same time, with his mattock, a new... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pages
...strike out the plugs which are fixed in the bottom of the cisterns; whence the water, gusjiing out, is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener,...divert the torrent, by turning the earth against it by his foot, and at the same time opening, with his mattock, a new trench to receive it. This mode... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...cisterns ; and then the water gushing out, is conducted from one rill to another by the husbandman, who is always ready, as occasion requires, to stop...torrent, by turning the earth against it with his foot, opening at the same time with his mattock a new trench to receive it.c Such is the practice to which... | |
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... the water, gushing out, is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who is always ready, as occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turning the earth against it by his foot, and at the same time opening, with his mattock,... 
