5, 1907. THE PROTECTIVE WORKS OF THE ASSOUAN DAM. distance downstream, at which the water had lost the facing the set No. 16 sluices, and immediately this greater part of its scouring and eroding violence. BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. section was finished, the river was diverted from the One of the… … mortar. At these points, however, where the talus was more than 10. feet in thickness, the proportion of cement mortar was made 6 to 1. neers of the Egyptian Irrigation Department have had to contend in regard to the impounding and distribu- tion of the water of the Nile by the barrage at Assouan,…
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