The Floods of the Mississippi River

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Excerpt from The Floods of the Mississippi River: Including an Account of Their Principal Causes and Effects, and a Description of the Levee System and Other Means Proposed and Tried for the Control of the RiverThe levees OF the mississippi river: Drainage of the Levee Basin, 1, Materials Used in Levee Building, 1, Precautions in Construction, 3, Levee cross-section, 3, hvee Foundations, 4, Height of Levees, 7, Method or Construction, 7, Letting Water Against New Levees, 8, seep-water and Its Dangers, 8, Care of Levees in Flood Season, 10, Methods of Storm Protection, 11, Leakage of Levees, 12, Sloughing of Levees, 14, Crevasses, 14, Closing Crevasses, 15.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.