Identifier: chinainseriesofv3to4allo (find matches)
Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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o pieces, numbers of little images fall out,for which a general scramble takes place. Proceeding to the various public offices, thecortege halts in front of each, and there makes a noisy demonstration, in return for theimages, or medals, so generously thrown amongst them by the authorities. The ceremony observed on Man-day, vs^hen an image of the human form is carriedabout in triumph, is in all respects identical- Government supply the litter-carriers, andthe litter-men, (Tae-Suey) and the effigy which is worshipped as the Deity of theYear, in allusion to the cycle of sixty years employed by the Chinese in their chrono-logical computations. There is a festival observed at Palermo, and called TheTriumph of St. Rosalia, which in its extravagance and arrangements very muchresembles Meeting the Spring, but differs altogether in its objects. However, thefestival of Apis, in ancient Egypt, resembles the Chinese feast in every respect. • Vide Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, p. 48.
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I ^^ 1 4 \ ^ ^ ^ MELON ISLANDS. 17 THE MELON ISLANDS, AND AN IRRIGATING WHEEL. To vanous use their various streams they bring,The people one, and one supplies the king. Gardens of Alcinous. Modes of raising water with facility from wells and rivers, for domestic and agricul-tural purposes, must have been peculiarly studied by Eastern nations, where thethe soil is arid—-the atmosphere sultry. The Athenians, in their earliest ages, had noother beverage than water, hence the loud praises of its merits by their chiefest poets: butthey did not then possess any mechanical contrivances for raising it to the surface. Nearthe mouth of each public well a cylinder of marble was fixed, up the side of which theladen bucket was drawn by a hand-rope, a fact distinctly attested by grooves of someinches in depth, worn in the stone by the friction of the rope. To this rude mode the aque-duct succeeded, on which the great cities of antiquity appear to have expended an extrava-gant share of labour. The

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