Identifier: wanderingsinbibl00mill (find matches)
Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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feet above each other. The lower one has atrench cut into it from the river. The water at the bot-tom of the trench is about two feet deep. On either sideof the trench is a heavy post or a strong column builtof sun-dried brick. The posts or columns stand about suefeet apart A cross-beam is firmly attached to the top ofthe pillars, and under this poles twelve feet long are at-tached four feet from the heavy end, by means of strongcords made of the fiber of the palm tree. The poles aretied so that they swing up and down easily. Behind, thatis at the shorter end of the poles, the end farthest fromthe river, is fastened a heavy lump of clay, and from theother end hangs a rope or long palm twig, to the lower endof which is fastened a closely-woven basket, or a leathernbucket On top of the terrace a reservoir is formed of lay-ers of reeds and palm stems, well daubed with Nile mudAn Arab stands on either side of the trench; by pullingdown on the ropes the buckets are lowered and filled with
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The Shaduf. Raising Water in Egypt.

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