 | Arthur Young - 1792 - Liczba stron: 586
...executed!—A wheel raifes a portion of the water from this canal thirty feet, by its hollow periphery. An aqueduct, built that height, on two tire of arches, receives the water, and conduifls it on arches built on the bridge, acrofs the river, to water the higher grounds; while the... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1793 - Liczba stron: 588
...wheel raifes a portion of the water from this canal thirty feet, by its hollow periphery. An aqueduft, built that height, on two tire of arches, receives the water, and conduits it on arches built on the bridge, acrofs the river, to water the higher grounds ; while the... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1794 - Liczba stron: 652
...executed ! — A wheel raifes a portion of the water from this canal thirty feet, by its hollow periphery. An aqueduct, built that height, on two tire of arches,...lower fields : — an undertaking which muft have coil confiderable fums, and fliews the prodigious value of water in fuch a climate. Sf. Laurence —... | |
 | William Tatham - 1801 - Liczba stron: 474
...perripherry. An aqueduct, built that height on two tire of arches, receives the water, and conduits it on arches built on the bridge, acrofs the river,...of the water to lower fields : an undertaking which mufl have cofl confiderable fums. * Within a few miles of Gange is another fimilar irrigation ; the... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - Liczba stron: 500
...executed ! A wheel raises a portion of the water from this canal thirty feet, by its hollow periphery. An aqueduct, built that height, on two tire of arches,...water, and conducts it on arches built on the bridge, across the river, to water the higher grounds ; while the canal below carries the larger part of the... | |
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... under the road, and walled in like a fhelf — a truly great work, equally well imagined and executed ! A wheel raifes a portion of the water from this canal thirty feet, by its hollow perripherry. 