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Land Artificially won from the Waters Great Works of Material Improvement Draining of Lincolnshire Fens Incursions of the Sea in the Netherlands Origin of Sea-dikes Gain and Loss of Land in the Netherlands Marine Deposits on the Coast of Netherlands Draining of Lake of Haarlem Draining of the Zuiderzee Geographical Effects of Improvements in the Netherlands Ancient Hydraulic Works Draining of Lake Celano by Prince Torlonia Incidental Consequences of draining Lakes Draining of Marshes Agricultural Draining Meteorological Effects of Draining Geographical Effects of Draining Geographical Effects of Aqueducts and Canals Antiquity of Irrigation Irrigation in Palestine, India, and Egypt Irrigation in Europe Meteorological Effects of Irrigation Water withdrawn from Rivers for Irrigation Injurious Effects of Rice-culture Salts Deposited by Water of Irrigation Subterranean Waters Artesian Wells Artificial Springs Economizing Precipitation Inundations in France Basins of Reception Diversion of Rivers Glacier Lakes River Embankments Other Remedies against Inundations Dikes of the Nile Deposits of Tuscan Rivers Improvements in Tuscan Maremma Improvements in Val di Chiana Coast of the Netherlands.
According to an article in the Gazzetto di Torino for the 17th of January, 1869, the deaths from malarious fever in the Canavese district which is asserted to have been altogether free from this disease before the recent introduction of rice-culture between the 1st of January and the 15th of October, 1868, were two thousand two hundred and fifty.
The islands were but little inhabited, and the few denizens we saw were engaged either in fishing or in the manufacture of salt from the brackish water. Once we landed at a collection of huts where were quartered the laborers of another company which had been successfully engaged in prosecuting the same experiment of rice-culture which our friend had just undertaken.
Frequent reference has been made to the parallels between Tinguian customs and those practiced in Sumatra, while the methods of rice-culture are so similar that they can have come only from the same source. In the weaving the influence of India seems evident, despite the fact that cotton is not bowed in Abra, and the Tinguian method of spinning seems unique.
Undulating lines and ascending terraces break the uniformity of the lovely plains with the fascination of weird contour and fanciful design, intricate as the pattern traced on the native sarong. The rice-culture of these fields and valleys is a perfect survival of the primeval system, unchanged since the days when "the gift of the gods" was first bestowed on primitive man in this land of plenty.
A special deity or spirit, Pulang Gana, presides over the rice-culture of the Ibans, but the crocodile also is intimately concerned with it. The following account was given us by an intelligent Iban from the Batang Lupar: On going to a new district Ibans always make a life-size image of a crocodile in clay on the land chosen for the PADI-farm.
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