“This fountain descended from heaven−-erected in this suitable place, dispenses its salutary waters on every side by ten thousand channels.” “Its pure and lucid streams attest its salubrity, and its transparent current has acquired for it an universal celebrity.” “As long as Allah causes a drop of rain to descend into its reservoir, the happy people who participate in its inestimable benefits, shall waft praises of its virtues to that sky from whence it came down.” “It should be our prayer that the justice of a merciful God should reward with happiness the author of this benevolent undertaking, and have his deed handed down to a never-ending posterity.” “This exquisite work is before Allah a deed of high merit, and indicates the piety of the Sultan Mahmoud.”−-1145. The whole of the water department is under the direction of the _Sou Nazir_, or, “_president of water,_” who has under him the _Sou Ioldgi_, or “water engineers,” and the _Sacgees_, or “watermen.” The business of the first is to watch that the Bendts, &c. receive no damage, and are in constant repair; the second distributes the water over the city. They are supplied with leathern sacks, broad at one end and narrow at the other, somewhat like churns, and closed at the mouth with a leather strap; when it is filled at a fountain, it is thrown across the Sacgee’s back, the broad end resting on his hip, and the narrow on his shoulder; when he empties it, he opens the flap, stoops his head, and the water is discharged into some recipient. There are generally in every hall two vessels sunk in the ground, and covered with a stopper. These the Sacgee fills every day, and receives for his trouble about two paras, or half a farthing.