Excerpt from A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, Vol. 2 of 2: Revised and Abridged From His Larger Work The usual contrivance for raising water from the Nile for watering the crops was the shado'of, or pole and bucket, so com mon still in Egypt; and even the water-wheel appears to have been employed in more recent times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.