Shadûf. The weight of the water in the bucket is balanced by the lump of Nile mud at the other end of the swinging beam, and the water is thus raised to the mouth of the canal with little effort; but pulling the bucket down is hard work, and the machine is ruinously extravagant in labour.

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On the canal (El Khalîg). Ths water-way, which runs through Cairo, was formerly navigable at high Nile.

Farmer drilling water well. In this picture he is loosening and tightening rope around the pulley, thus raising and lowering the drilling tool, Pie Town, New Mexico

A water-wheel (sâkiyeh) on the canal. When the creaking wooden wheels are in motion the earthenware jars, strung to ropes made of palm fibre, revolve, alternately dripping into the water and emptying themselves into a trough connected with a reservoir.

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground

Gathering figs on the Barada, near 'Ain Fîjeh. Here the effects of irrigation are strikingly seen; as far as the canals and ducts are carried all is luxuriant, but immediately above the line all is parched and bare

The Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, on the eastern side of the town. A Bedouin sheikh with his attendant in the foreground carrying long tufted spears. Women filling water-jars and cleansing their garments by soaking and beating them with strong bats made of wood.

Nubian water-wheel. In Nubia these sâkiyehs take the place of shadûfs of Upper Egypt, and though they are costly to erect they effect a considerable saving of labor.

The natural bridge, Lebanon. It is called in Arabic "Jisr el Hajr" (The Bridge of Stone). It spans the chasm through which flows the Neb'a el Lebban (Fountain of Milk), one of the sources of the Nahr el Kelb (the Dog River).

The leaning column, Karnak. In one side of the aisles of the Hall of Columns. The base is worn and the foundations undermined by the Nile, which at the inundation rises some six feet above the level of the floor.

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Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905), Author

Dana, William Jay (1839-1913), Wood engraver

Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924), Artist

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On the canal (El Khalîg). Ths water-way, which runs through Cairo, was formerly navigable at high Nile.

Farmer drilling water well. In this picture he is loosening and tightening rope around the pulley, thus raising and lowering the drilling tool, Pie Town, New Mexico

A water-wheel (sâkiyeh) on the canal. When the creaking wooden wheels are in motion the earthenware jars, strung to ropes made of palm fibre, revolve, alternately dripping into the water and emptying themselves into a trough connected with a reservoir.

Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in sack which is suspended from their waist between their knees after the machine has dug them from the ground

Gathering figs on the Barada, near 'Ain Fîjeh. Here the effects of irrigation are strikingly seen; as far as the canals and ducts are carried all is luxuriant, but immediately above the line all is parched and bare

The Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, on the eastern side of the town. A Bedouin sheikh with his attendant in the foreground carrying long tufted spears. Women filling water-jars and cleansing their garments by soaking and beating them with strong bats made of wood.

Nubian water-wheel. In Nubia these sâkiyehs take the place of shadûfs of Upper Egypt, and though they are costly to erect they effect a considerable saving of labor.

The natural bridge, Lebanon. It is called in Arabic "Jisr el Hajr" (The Bridge of Stone). It spans the chasm through which flows the Neb'a el Lebban (Fountain of Milk), one of the sources of the Nahr el Kelb (the Dog River).

The leaning column, Karnak. In one side of the aisles of the Hall of Columns. The base is worn and the foundations undermined by the Nile, which at the inundation rises some six feet above the level of the floor.

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label_outline Explore Beam, Dana William Jay 1839 1913 Wood Engraver, Weight

In the shoe bazaar. This was formerly a school, an interesting building now in a very dilapadated condition. The gateway, however, is still preserved.

The temple at Deir el 'Ashâir. It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.

Island of Philae, looking down the Nile., The Holy land, Syria...

Abou Simbel, Nubia -- from the west

The rocks at Sarâbít el Khâdim ; and the temple enclosure. There are two temples, of different dates. The one not shown here is formed of two chambers excavated in the rock, having a walled continuation in front.

[Prince Sebekhetep, ... and his wife Ady, presumably the brother and sister-in-law of Renni, seated before a table of offerings.]

The brick pyramid of Dahshoor - Egypt

Dismal mud swamp. Georgia Sterescope Card.

Tapping Machine, for Manufacturers of Fire-Arms, Sewing Machines, etc.

Carpet bazaar. There are two carpet bazaars in the Khân-El-Khalîly. The larger one is established in the picturesque court of a cuilding of the thirteenth century, a portion of which is shown above. Here may be seen carpets from India and Persia and from every part of the Turkish empire.

View from upper Beth-Horon, looking westward, to the Mediterranean Sea, at sunset

[Workers at mouth of tunnel.] Massachusetts stereoscope card collection, NYPL

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