Through the Syrian town of Hama flows the river Orontes, the only source of water for the town’s many little gardens planted on the sloping banks. The giant waterwheels, called “nouriahs” lift the river water onto aquaeducts from where the water runs to the gardens. The huge wheels run on a wooden axle that rests on a wooden bearing, water being the only lubrication. The axle creaks in the bearing. This noise (of about thirty-four nouriahs) can be heard all over the town of Hama
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Through the Syrian town of Hama flows the river Orontes, the only source of water for the town’s many little gardens planted on the sloping banks. The giant waterwheels, called “nouriahs” lift the river water onto aquaeducts from where the water runs to the gardens. The huge wheels run on a wooden axle that rests on a wooden bearing, water being the only lubrication. The axle creaks in the bearing. This noise (of about thirty-four nouriahs) can be heard all over the town of Hama. People on horses near a large water wheel
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