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48 LECTURE ON EGYPT.
man raises about twenty-five gallons of water per
minute. The hieroglyphics at Thebes represent the
ancient Egyptians working shadoofs of precisely the
same construction as those employed at the present
day.
3rd. The Sakieh consists of a vertical wheel of about
twenty feet diameter, round which, and descending to
the level of the water, is an endless rope-ladder, with
earthenware jars attached. The jars fill as they dip
into the water, are drawn up full, and when at their
maximum elevation, discharge into a trough or channel,
from which smaller channels lead into the lands for
irrigation. The Sakieh is worked by means of oxen,
or other cattle, attached to a horizontal wheel which
works by cogs into the vertical wheel described.
4th. The steam-engine, I need not describe.
Barrage. jn certain years the floods of the Nile are insuffi-
cient in height, with present arrangements, to supply the
rich inundation water and mud to all the crops, and mil-
lions sterling are lost to the country, and distress and
sometimes famine follow. To remedy this serious, prac-
tical evil the Grand Barrage of the Nile was projected by
Mehemet Ali, and completed—so far as it can be said
to be completed—by his successor, Sai'd Pasha. The
object of this work was to back up the water of the
Nile to a certain level, by means of weirs and sluices,
so as to supply irrigation Avater to the Delta without
pumping. The conception was a grand one and the
principle sound, but the foundations and other details
man raises about twenty-five gallons of water per
minute. The hieroglyphics at Thebes represent the
ancient Egyptians working shadoofs of precisely the
same construction as those employed at the present
day.
3rd. The Sakieh consists of a vertical wheel of about
twenty feet diameter, round which, and descending to
the level of the water, is an endless rope-ladder, with
earthenware jars attached. The jars fill as they dip
into the water, are drawn up full, and when at their
maximum elevation, discharge into a trough or channel,
from which smaller channels lead into the lands for
irrigation. The Sakieh is worked by means of oxen,
or other cattle, attached to a horizontal wheel which
works by cogs into the vertical wheel described.
4th. The steam-engine, I need not describe.
Barrage. jn certain years the floods of the Nile are insuffi-
cient in height, with present arrangements, to supply the
rich inundation water and mud to all the crops, and mil-
lions sterling are lost to the country, and distress and
sometimes famine follow. To remedy this serious, prac-
tical evil the Grand Barrage of the Nile was projected by
Mehemet Ali, and completed—so far as it can be said
to be completed—by his successor, Sai'd Pasha. The
object of this work was to back up the water of the
Nile to a certain level, by means of weirs and sluices,
so as to supply irrigation Avater to the Delta without
pumping. The conception was a grand one and the
principle sound, but the foundations and other details