 | Robert Southey - 1811 - 236 pages
...lined on all the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives.— BUCHANAN. Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Southey - English literature - 1829 - 806 pages
...on all the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives. — BUCHANAN. Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 636 pages
...on all the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives. — BUCHANAN. Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Charles Pridham - Sri Lanka - 1849 - 530 pages
...and most profitable sorts, and vice versa. In the northern, and indeed in many parts of the country, where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, they supply the defect by the construction of tanks, which contain the rain until it is required for... | |
 | Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...Holy Land; in France and on the Rhine the vines frequently descend in regular terraces. Again:— " Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, ihey supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 352 pages
...the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives." — Buchanan. • " Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1884 - 586 pages
...all the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives." — Buchanan. " Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Knox - Ceyton - 1911 - 590 pages
...they time """"' but , 1 • r~ I_-TTK/ • ' re"P together. ineir Lorn to the1r Harvest ; some sow1ng sooner, some later, but all reaping together, unless they be Fields that ire enclosed by themselves ; and peculiar to one Man. Where there are no Springs or Rivers to furnish... | |
 | Robert Southey - 720 pages
...on all the four sides with cut stone, and are the most elegant works of the natives. — BUCHANAN. Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern parts, where there are but two or three springs, they supply this defect by saving... | |
 | Robert Knox - British - 2004 - 122 pages
...prevent their corn being trampled down or eaten up by llicr- the cattle. Thus they time their corn to their harvest; some sowing sooner, some later,...are enclosed by themselves, and peculiar to one man. Their anifi- "Where there are no springs or rivers to furnish them with water, as it is in the northern... | |
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Where there are no Springs or Rivers to furnish them with Water, as it is in the Northern Parts, where there are but two or three Springs, they supply this defect by saving of rain Water; which they do, by casting up great Banks in convenient places to... 