It was, she thought, worth planting once for all with the most nutritious herbage, but not worth the labour of subsequent close cultivation.

Any lady belonging to a civilised people, and accustomed to a country life, upon Earth might easily have perceived all that Eveena discovered; but considering how seldom the latter had left her home, how few opportunities she had to see anything of practical agriculture, the quickness of her perception and the correctness of her inferences not a little surprised me.

The path we pursued led directly to the object of our visit.

The waters of the higher hills were collected in a vast tank excavated in an extensive plateau at the mid-level.

At the summit of the first ascent we met and were escorted by one of the officials entrusted with the charge of these works, which supply water of extraordinary purity to a population of perhaps a quarter of a million, inhabiting a district of some 10,000 square miles in extent.