 | John Davy - Sri Lanka - 1821 - 578 pages
...sow when he please, and from good ground annually obtain two, and I have heard, even three crops.* The hilly and mountainous districts, in consequence...are so ; otherwise the coolest, most salubrious and most beautiful parts of the Interior would, instead of being cultivated to a certain extent, be quite... | |
 | Meteorology - 1828 - 888 pages
...constant supply, the judgment and skill of the cultivator are most exercised. Sometimes it is conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, and occasionally,...mountain to another, by means of wooden pipes. The implements of husbandry employed by the Singalese are few VOL. V.— No. 5.— MAY, 1828.—- 12 in... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1828 - 394 pages
...constant supply, the judgment and skill of the cultivator are most exercised. Sometime!) it is conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, and occasionally...mountain to another by means of wooden pipes. ; The implements of husbandry employed by the Singalese are few in number, of a very simple description,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...constant supply, the judgment and skill of the cultivator are most exercised. Sometimes it is conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, and occasionally...of a mountain to another by means of wooden pipes.' ' In surface irrigation,' says Mr. Loudon, ' the water is conveyed in a system of open channels, which... | |
 | Werner Hoffmeister - History - 1848 - 560 pages
...learn from Dr Davy, " sometimes conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, or occasionally even carried from one side of a mountain to another by means of wooden pipes." Of these picturesque terraces, which, in some places not exceeding three feet in width, resemble the... | |
 | John Davy - Sri Lanka - 1990 - 586 pages
...sow when he please, and from good ground annually obtain two, and I have heard, even three crops.* The hilly and mountainous districts, in consequence...cultivation of this important grain : and it is a rapst fortunate " circumstance that they are so ; otherwise the coolest, most salubrious and most beautiful... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1828 - 392 pages
...constant supply, the judgment and skill of the cultivator are most exercised. Sometimes it is conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, and occasionally...of a mountain to another by means of wooden pipes. Similar instruments to these, but superior in their quality, may be procured of our own manufacturers.... | |
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... of making. In bringing water to his fields and insuring them a constant supply, the judgment and skill of the cultivator are most exercised. Sometimes it is conducted two or three miles along the side of a hill, and occasionally it is even carried... 