 Few of the large towns or oases but had four or five of these rivulets or feleji running into them. The isolated spots to which water is thus conveyed, possess a soil so fertile, that nearly every grain, fruit, or vegetable, common to India, Arabia, or...  Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society - Page xxix1871Full view - About this book
 | James Raymond Wellsted - Arabian Peninsula - 1838 - 496 pages
...distance of six or eight miles, and an unlimited supply is thus obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad, and two feet deep, and contain...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the Desert, into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...contain a clear rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but had four or five of these rivulets running into them. The isolated spots to which water...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the Desert, into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...clear rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but had four or five of these rivulets rutining into them. The isolated spots to which water is thus...tales of the oases will be no longer regarded as an exasgeration, since a single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the Desert, into... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...clear rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but had four or five of these rivulets ruhniug into them. The isolated spots to which water is thus...Persia, is produced almost spontaneously ; and the talcs of the oases will be no longer regarded as nn exaggeration, since a single step conveys the traveller... | |
 | Asia - 1838 - 664 pages
...towns or oases have not four or five of these felty'i, or rivulets, running into them, which render the soil so fertile, that " nearly every grain, fruit,...common to India, Arabia, or Persia, is produced almost instantaneously." Thus a single step brings the rejoicing traveller from the glare of the Desert into... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Carnivals - 1839 - 466 pages
...distance of six or eight miles; and an unlimited supply is thus obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad, and two feet deep, and contain...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the desert into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Anthropology - 1847 - 160 pages
...obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad and two feet deep, and contain a clear and rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the desert into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Anthropology - 1847 - 152 pages
...obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad and two feet deep, and contain a clear and rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the desert into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | American Ethnological Society - America - 1848 - 894 pages
...obtained. These channels are usually about four feet broad and two feet deep, and contain a clear and rapid stream. Few of the large towns or oases but...single step conveys the traveller from the glare and sand of the desert into a fertile tract, watered by a hundred rills, teeming with the most luxuriant... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1868 - 664 pages
...miles, and an unlimited supply is thus obtained. These channels are usually about 4 feet broad and 2 deep, and contain a clear rapid stream. Few of the...Arabia, or Persia, is produced almost spontaneously." In the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' the same subterranean irrigating channels are referred... | |
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