The Gentoos preserved, with a provident and religious care, the precious deposit of the periodical rain in reservoirs, many of them works of royal grandeur; and from these, as occasion demanded, they fructified the whole country.
Burke describes the impressive engineering of the Gentoos in creating reservoirs to store rainwater.
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