"Ayme" Quotes from Famous Books
... acquainted with the art of boring artesian wells. Ayme, a French engineer in the service of the Pacha of Egypt, found several of these old wells, a few years ago, in the oases. They differed little from modern artesian wells, but were provided with pear-shaped valves of stone for closing them when water was not needed. ... — The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh |