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BEDRES1IAYN TO MINI EH.
GO
stooping and rising, stooping and rising, with the regu-
larity of a pendulum. It is the same machine which we
shall see by and by depicted in the tombs at Thebes; and
THE SHADUF.
the man is so evidently an ancient Egyptian, that we find
ourselves wondering how he escaped being mummified four
or five thousand years ago.
river. But if tlie river lias subsided twelve or fourteen feet, it will
require another shadoof to be worked in the trough into which the
water of the first has been brought. If the river has sunk still more,
a third will be required before it can be lifted to the top of the bank,
so as to enable it to flow off to the fields that require irrigation."—
"Egypt of the Pharaohs and the Khedive," p. 445 ct seq.
GO
stooping and rising, stooping and rising, with the regu-
larity of a pendulum. It is the same machine which we
shall see by and by depicted in the tombs at Thebes; and
THE SHADUF.
the man is so evidently an ancient Egyptian, that we find
ourselves wondering how he escaped being mummified four
or five thousand years ago.
river. But if tlie river lias subsided twelve or fourteen feet, it will
require another shadoof to be worked in the trough into which the
water of the first has been brought. If the river has sunk still more,
a third will be required before it can be lifted to the top of the bank,
so as to enable it to flow off to the fields that require irrigation."—
"Egypt of the Pharaohs and the Khedive," p. 445 ct seq.