Ancient and modern engineering and the Isthmian canal (1903)
Burr, William H. (William Hubert), 1851-1934 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 448
418 THE NICARAGUA ROUTE FOR A SHIP-CANAL. Obviously throughout the rainy season of the year, except during years of low rainfall, some water would necessarily be wasted from the lake because its retention would raise the surface of the lake too high, causing damage, floods, or injurious over- flows… … Village of Fort San Carlos at Entrance to the San Juan River. Lake Nicaragua is on the right and San Juan River in the middle ground. during the dry period of the year, or during low rainfall years, the requisite quantity for the wastage of evaporation from its surface and for the operation of the…
Civil engineering · Canals, Interoceanic
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