Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.39
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.39
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c20.39
Besides the great reservoirs for water, the country is covered with numerous wells which are employed for watering the fields. The water is raised by a wheel either by men or by bullocks, and it is afterwards conveyed by little canals which diverged on all sides, so as to convey a sufficient quantity of moisture to the roots of the most distant plants.¹⁷ When these are seen in operation it gives the most cheerful picture of quiet and useful industry, that can occur even to the imagination. The very sight of it conveys to the mind peace and tranquillity.