 | 1858 - 358 páginas
...erroneously described them as excavated out of the solid rock, but I am not aware of any such. Those under the foot of the hills are generally built at a re-entering...being lost. • The overflow of one tank is conducted int* another, and thus I believe that a complete chain existed into the very centre of the town, where... | |
 | Sir Robert Lambert Playfair - 1859 - 218 páginas
...re-entering angle in the hill has been removed, and a salient angle or curve of masonry built in front of it, while every feature of the adjacent rocks has...ensure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and thus a complete chain has been formed, reaching to... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 páginas
...rock which promisee a copious flow of water ; there the soil has been carefully cleared away, and n salient angle or curve of masonry built across it,...advantage of, and connected by small aqueducts, to insure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank is conducted into another, end thus a complete... | |
 | Frederick Mercer Hunter - 1877 - 256 páginas
...re-entering angle on the hill has been removed and a salient angle or curve of masonry built in front of it; while every feature of the adjacent rocks has...advantage of and connected by small aqueducts, to insure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and... | |
 | Henry Cornish - 1879 - 398 páginas
...salient angle, or curve of masonry built in front of it ; while every feature of the adjacent rocks bas been taken advantage of, and connected by small aqueducts...ensure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and thus a complete chain has been formed reaching to the... | |
 | 1880 - 488 páginas
...128,786 328,501 7,418,690 },CoghUm Tank. 1 J No. 1 to 8 | 2,835,000 500,000 Playfair Tank. Parsi Tank. been taken advantage of, and connected by small aqueducts...ensure no water being lost The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and so a complete chain has been formed, reaching to the... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - 1885 - 516 páginas
...re-entering angle on the hill has been removed, and a salient angle or curve of masonry built in front of it ; while every feature of the adjacent rocks has...advantage of and connected by small aqueducts, to ensure that no water is lost The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and thus... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1888 - 662 páginas
...re-entering angle on the hill has been removed, and a salient angle or curve of masonry built in front of it ; while every feature of the adjacent rocks has...ensure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the succeeding one, and thus a complete chain formed reaching to the town.'... | |
 | Josiah Hughes - 1891 - 534 páginas
...are extremely fantastical in shapes; some are formed by a dyke built across the gorge of a valley, while every feature of the adjacent rocks has been...advantage of and connected by small aqueducts, to secure all the water which could be intercepted. The overflow of one tank has been conducted into the... | |
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... the hill has been removed, and a salient angle or curve of masonry built in front of it, while every feature of the adjacent rocks has been taken advantage of and connected by small aqueducts, to ensure no water being lost. The overflow of one tank... 