A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine . ades the his-tory, mythology, and almost every thing connected with the remote ancients; most of which is so pei-jdexing to decipher, and the greater partof which has defeated all attempts of the moderns satisfactorily to the time of Job, who is supposed to nave lived before Moses, theconstellations were well known. Canst thou bind the sweet infl
A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine . ades the his-tory, mythology, and almost every thing connected with the remote ancients; most of which is so pei-jdexing to decipher, and the greater partof which has defeated all attempts of the moderns satisfactorily to the time of Job, who is supposed to nave lived before Moses, theconstellations were well known. Canst thou bind the sweet influencesof Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion, xxxviii, 31. Which makethArcturus, Orion and PleiJides, and the chambers of the south, ix, 9. In-deed, M. Bailey and others have admitted that the astronomy of Chaldea,India, and Egypt, is but tlie wrtxik of a great system of astronomical sci-ence, wliich was carried to a high degree of perfection in the early agesof the world. When water is only required to be raised two or three feet from atank or river, a vessel su:-pended by four cords, and worked by two men,is very extensively used in the east. In Egypt it is named the Mental,the figure of which iij copied from Grande •:*jiA-i ,S^ y///y^ No. S!9. Ejjptian .\toutal. A S!i\all trench is dug on the edge of the river, on the borders of whicht^o men stand opposite each other. They hold in each hand a conl, theends of which are attached to a basket of palm leaves c-overed with leatheri\.nev launching it into the water, they lean backwards so as to be half 86 Various Arts of [liuok I seated un siinall mounds of earth raised fur the pui-pose by which tho \vei;_htof the body assists in raising the load, as it is swung towards thegutter or ba.^in formed on the bank to receive it. The movements of tliemen are regulated by chanting, a custom of great antiquity, and adoptedin all kinds of manual labor where more than one person were engaged. Soiincrat has figured and descr
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