kanats

Canals cut some twenty feet deep, like the _kanats_ of Persia, conduct the water to the fields.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

There was an arrangement of loose-boxes in kanats, and she was in the next one talking to him. '

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

The ancient process of making these _kanats_ has descended unchanged to the modern Persian, who is really a marvellous expert -- when he chooses to use his skill -- at conveying water where Nature has not provided it.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Miles of these _kanats_ are thus bored, with air shafts every ten to twenty feet distant.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Long rows of _kanats_, ancient and modern, to the south-east warn us of the approach of a small town, and on the road plenty of skeletons of camels, donkeys, and mules may be seen.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

After leaving behind the Guebre tower we come again upon thousands of borings for water, and ancient _kanats_, now dry and unused.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

There are no perennial streams of any importance, and all the irrigation works are dependent on artificial subterranean canals and kanats, and these in their turn are mostly subject to the rain and snow fall on the hills surrounding Yezd.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Just before arriving at Agdah the earth has positively been disembowelled in search of water, so numerous are the kanats of all sizes and depths among which we wind our way.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The water is not very plentiful, as can be seen by the hundreds of borings for water and disused _kanats_ to the north of the city, where most fields are to be found, while the majority of fruit gardens and trees are to the east.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Near ancient towns and villages one finds a great many of these _kanats_ dry and disused at present, and nearly everywhere one sees people at work making fresh ones, for how to get water is one of the great and serious questions in the land of Iran.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894