A popular account of the ancient Egyptians. Revised and abridged from [Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians]. |
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... usual custom 374. Gathering the Doora , and wheat • 375. Gathering the Doora , and stripping off the grain 376. Ostrich , with the feathers and eggs Vignette • I. The Nóreg , a machine used by the modern Egyptians for threshing corn ...
... usual custom 374. Gathering the Doora , and wheat • 375. Gathering the Doora , and stripping off the grain 376. Ostrich , with the feathers and eggs Vignette • I. The Nóreg , a machine used by the modern Egyptians for threshing corn ...
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... usual contrivance for raising water from the Nile for watering the crops was the shadóof , or pole and bucket , so common still in Egypt ; and even the water - wheel appears to have been employed in more recent times . The sculptures of ...
... usual contrivance for raising water from the Nile for watering the crops was the shadóof , or pole and bucket , so common still in Egypt ; and even the water - wheel appears to have been employed in more recent times . The sculptures of ...
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... usual idea was that a famine would ensue ; fourteen being required for a plentiful harvest : but when Petronius was præfect of Egypt , twelve cubits gave the same abundance , nor did they suffer from want even at eight : " and it may be ...
... usual idea was that a famine would ensue ; fourteen being required for a plentiful harvest : but when Petronius was præfect of Egypt , twelve cubits gave the same abundance , nor did they suffer from want even at eight : " and it may be ...
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... usual goad . Cows were occasionally put to the plough ; and it may not have been unknown to them that the cow ploughs quicker than the ox . The mode of yoking the beasts was exceedingly simple . Across the extremity of the pole , a ...
... usual goad . Cows were occasionally put to the plough ; and it may not have been unknown to them that the cow ploughs quicker than the ox . The mode of yoking the beasts was exceedingly simple . Across the extremity of the pole , a ...
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... usual square beds , * surrounded by a raised border of earth to keep in the water , which was conducted into them by channels from the shadóof , or poured in with buckets . † Wheat was cut in about five , barley in four months ; the ...
... usual square beds , * surrounded by a raised border of earth to keep in the water , which was conducted into them by channels from the shadóof , or poured in with buckets . † Wheat was cut in about five , barley in four months ; the ...
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