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the well, and near each end there hangs suspended 

 round it, in the fashion of a necklace, a long rope 

 ladder, and to each step of the ladders there is fastened 

 a small earthen pot. 



As the drum revolves it carries round the ladders with 

 it; the pots descend, mouths downward, dip into the 

 water, and rise filled on the other side. As they reach 

 the top and pass over the drum, they become again 

 reversed, and discharge their contents into a wooden 

 trough. The trough conveys the water to a small 

 reservoir, and from thence, by means of shallow 

 trenches and earthen pipes, it is distributed, as re- 

 quired, over the garden. 



The drum revolves by means of a pair of bullocks 

 yoked together. They move round and round an upright 

 post some few yards from the well. As the bullocks 

 go round they turn the post, and the post again, by 

 means of a cog-wheel, turns a long beam, and the beam, 

 by means of another cog-wheel, turns the axle of the 

 drum. With the exception of the earthen pots, the 

 whole machine, drum, cog-wheels, post, beam, and all, 

 is composed entirely of wood and rope. No machine 

 could be more clumsy or more wasteful of labour, nor, 

 at the same time, more picturesque. 



The bullocks move leisurely round. The driver sits 

 on the yoke between them, the image of calm. The 

 cog-wheels creak, the drum as it revolves gives out 

 a monotonous droning hum, while as the earthen 

 pots ascend and turn at least a third of the water 

 they have brought up falls again back into the well. 

 It falls with a gentle splash, pleasant to the ear. The 



