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Scientific American, Vol. 60, No. 26 (1889) (1889)

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so often dentally, of course, the hard rammed layers were dis- gallons of water, forming a lake sixteen miles long, taught by engineering disasters, the necessity of allow- turbed and disintegrated. After this accident the dam Apprehensions have been expressed as to the effects of ing a large… … til 1875. In May of this year it was bought by a pri- ance; this factor in the case of the dam and lake over- the present Croton dam, which will undoubtedly re- main intact and submerged, will lessen, to some ex- flow was far too small. vate individual, who four years later soldit to three tent,…

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