London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 276
umber your pages with a parade of analysis, I shall just statethe results I have arrived at, and leave your mathematical read-ers, who will at once see what I would be at, to judge for them-selves ; while the practical man can discern from the figurewhether the positions and forms I have assigned… … a right line (or, possibly, a parabolic segment, presenting a con-vex inclined surface to the water in very deep streams). Theline from a to 6, I consider, should be a parabola, to whichthe water-level should be a tangent; because this curve givesthe easiest change from direct to curvilinear…
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