 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 476 pagina’s
...and the day is devoted to feastings, fire works, and all other demonstrations of public rejoicing. As the Nile could not of itself cover every part of...lawful to cut the trenches for the reception of the waters, till the river has attained its proper height; neither must all the trenches be opened together;... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pagina’s
...eminences, have each their canals, which are opened at proper times, to let the water into the country. The more distant villages have theirs also, even to the extremities of the kingdom. Thus the waters are successively conveyed to the most remote places. Persons are not permitted to cut... | |
 | Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam - 1836 - 384 pagina’s
...eminences, have each their canals, which are opened at proper times, to let the water into the country. The more distant villages have theirs also, even to the extremities of the kingdom. Thus the waters are successively conveyed to the most remote places. Persons are not permitted to cut... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1850 - 544 pagina’s
...eminences, have each their canals, which are opened at proper times, to let the water into the country. The more distant villages have theirs also, even to the extremities of the kingdom. Thus the waters are successively conveyed to the most remote places. Persons are not permitted to cut... | |
 | Tom (uncle, pseud) - 1852 - 368 pagina’s
...eminences, have each their canals; which are opened at proper times, to let the water into the country. The more distant villages have theirs also, even to the extremities of the kingdom. Persons are not permitted to cut trenches to receive the waters, until the river rises to a certain... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1881 - 1308 pagina’s
...eminen-jcs, have each their canals, which are opened at proper times, to let the water into the country. The more distant villages have theirs also, even to the extremities of the kingdom. Thus the waters are successively conveyed to the most remote places. Persons are not permitted to cut... | |
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... to be used to facilitate the overflowing of the lands; and numberless canals cut, in order to convey the waters to all parts. The villages, which stand very thick on the banks of the Nile on eminences, have each their canals, which are opened at proper... 