1 OTH£ft . MOjmS OF. UUUeAnON. aoig
2 moA'htg^' I hM hmtd. t£ • Cmarmz near Subsewaur m Persian
3 KhotMUnn* dnon^ ^irfiidi' s lioneiiiiii B^it ride with hu lance
4 cfnr lua'dMUar. -Ilia imudMr Df/weflt, and, dDMquentlj, th^
5 kngthof thACbnais, depend oil the anan^
6 the chein U ^enenUy cchtiliucd, dtfaier tfll iraier enough hae been
7 obtamed, or tiDtfae froUabeoosDe aodeqiy aa toiindOTitinooiiveBieBt
8 lo 'paoioaed. I hm heaid of iratioiiB lengths* &om two auka' to
9 Aiitf-mKt bnt labeUd anppoae the nanal length uto imder thekiweit
10 ef ihoae'ineasnna. t
11 \ It maj be anppoaed that the ezpeaae of io lahoriona. a Aructnae
12 noit be giieai, but the rich are ftnd of laying oat Amt nuMiej tm
13 Aoae means of bringing waatelaad into odtrrttion, and it is bj no
14 akeinis untiommpn for the poor to asiodate to'make'K Caoraiat and
15 to divide the land whieh it. iiiigates, among, tftvn. . ! '
16 Cauraizes m' v^ comman in aU the west ol^'the cdttntry*' and
17 their nninbers are on the increase. I know but of one on the eait of
18 die mgeof Solimaun, which is at Tuttore in Damaun. Tliey ana
19 in use over all Persia, as they have been in Tooricistaiui, but the^-ve
20 now neglected in the latter coontiy. Bven their nanle is linknonni
21 in India.
22 Tliese are the only important modes of artificial irrigation. Wells
23 and ponds are Hcarrelv used, except to drink trom, and there are not
24 manv instanc t s ot those reservoirs so common in the south of India,
25 where a grt^at body of water is collected by an embankment thrown
26 across a valley. A famous one at Ghuznee will liereatler be meri-
27 tioiied, and there are some of great magmiudi/ in the Paropanaisan
28 mountains, but they are not general throughout the country.
29 At Peshawer, and for a ojnsiderable space on the eastern side of
30 the Indus, during the whole of its course, the Pubinn wheel is used
31 for raising water ; in most places from wells, but at Peshawer from
32 rivers, on the banks of which the machinery is erected.
33 ' , 'A portion of the land is iiot watered by artificial means ; many
34 ipeto aaiongthehfflB'in variicw ports of >the kingdom, anderen'sbaae
35 of the richert pails of tfaepiains; depend entirtilj on the wmt iMffi
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