Excerpt from The Hydraulic Principles Governing River and Harbor ConstructionA statement of the principles of river hydraulics within the limits of a single volume has required intense condensation and to attempt to illustrate the applications Of these principles in practice would require a large addition to its pages. By request.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.