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SHREWSBURY, 10 miles from Wellington, is, in more respects than one, an interesting town, situated partly on a precipitous peninsula formed by the swift clear waters of the Severn, united to the opposite side by bridges, in one of which the huge undershot waterwheels of a corn mill are for ever turning.
"It seems about enough," the Inspector answered. Farag, kennel-huntsman, entered the saloon, as was his privilege. "My uncle, who was beaten by the Father of Waterwheels, would approach, O Excellency," he said, "and there are others on the bank." "Admit," said the Governor. There tramped aboard sheikhs and villagers to the number of seventeen.
Great wooden waterwheels are also used and an ox or donkey or man or woman or a blinded camel will go round and round and you can hear this wooden wheel squeak for a mile. The little buckets on the waterwheel keep an almost endless stream flowing into the irrigation ditch. Another method is a sort of a paddle wheel on a windlass upon which a native will walk hour after hour.
We may see where the manufacturers of cloth and paper have established their mills; and also where, in some cases, they have had to widen out the valleys, and to cut roads through the rocks to their works. All the streams turn waterwheels, and many of the surrounding rocks are disfigured with cloth 'tenters.
Sometimes Gihon saw the whole procession of the Hunt silhouetted against the morning-blue, bearing him company for many merry miles. At every half mile the horses and the donkeys jumped the water-channels up, on, change your leg, and off again like figures in a zoetrope, till they grew small along the line of waterwheels.
The gardeners, standing at the wells, were singing with sweet strains; and, working waterwheels and buckets, were irrigating the high and low grounds."
The older sheikhs, indeed, stood out for the unmeasurable beatings of the old days the sharper the punishment, they argued, the surer the title; but here the hand of modern progress was against them, and they contented themselves with telling tales of Ben the first Governor, whom they called the Father of Waterwheels, and of that heroic age when men, horses, and hounds were worth following.
By means of this wheel, and others at greater depths, the whole drainage of this mine is effected. If, by any means, these waterwheels should cease to act, the bell would cease to sound, and the miners would hasten to the day, for no man could tell how soon his working might be flooded.” “And can it be heard throughout the mine?” “Through this portion of it.
They are necessary, moreover, for the crops. Let there be many wheels and sound channels and much good barley." "Without money," replied an aged Sheikh, "there are no waterwheels." "I will lend the money," said the Governor. "At what interest, O Our Excellency?"
Farag in the barge will tell thee how they are to live." There is no instance of any default on the Governor's personal and unauthorized loans, for which they called him the Father of Waterwheels. But the first puppyshow at the capital needed enormous tact and the presence of a black battalion ostentatiously drilling in the barrack square to prevent trouble after the prize-giving.
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