e lower reaches of the of masonry, holding back a great head of streams, and make it practicable to do water, but rather a slight diversion weir, for American rivers what the Assouan acting simply to direct the current dam and reservoir has done for the Nile, toward the bank from which the flume or… … flexibility of regula- PHOTO BY UNDERWOOD View at Watervliet New York, on the Hudson River, showing the tion. manner in which buildings were torn from their foundations and carried away by . the flood. The total flood losses this year are estimated at The popular idea one hundred million dollars.…
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