In Royal octavo, Second Edition, cloth, price 15s. 

 Illustrated with Plates and Woodcuts, 



THE 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE 



OF 



CANAL AND RIVER ENGINEERING. 



BY DAVID STEVENSON, F.RS.E. 



Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers ; author of " A Sketch of the Civil 

 Engineering of North America," "Treatise on the Application of Marine 

 Surveying and Hydrometry to the Practice of Civil Engineering," etc. 



CONTENTS. 



I. Barge Canals. 

 II. Ship Canals. 



III. The Compartments of Kivers 



defined. 



IV. Hydrometric Observations. 



V. Discharge of Rivers Under- 

 Currents Specific Gravi- 

 ties of Water, etc. 

 VI. The -"Eiver Proper" Com- 

 partment. 

 VII. Tidal Propagation and Tidal 



Currents of Kivers. 

 VIII. Tidal Compartment .Works 

 for its Improvement. 



Physical Characteristics of Rivers. 



IX. Application of these Works 



in Practice. 



X. Situations where the Prin- 

 ciples of Improvement re- 

 commended are not appli- 

 cable. 

 XI. Works for Accommodation of 



Vessels. 



XII. " Sea Proper " Compartment 

 of Rivers. 



XIII. Reclamation and Protection 



of Land. 



XIV. Crossing of Navigations by 



Railway Bridges. 



PLATES. 



I. Caledonian Canal. 

 II. Amsertdam Canal. 



III. Suez Canal. 



IV. Dornoch Firth. 

 V. Chart of the Dee. 



VI. Diagram of Tidal Lines of the 

 Dee during the Flood of a 

 Spring Tide. 



VII. Do. do. during an Ebb Tide. 

 VIII. Chart of the Lune. 

 IX. Diagram of Tidal Lines of the 

 Lune during the Flood of a 

 Spring Tide. 



Tidal Lines of 

 during an Ebb 



X. Diagram of 

 the Lune 

 Tide. 



XI. Diagram showing Tidal Lines 

 of the Dee during the Ebb 

 of a Neap Tide. 



XII. Diagram showing Tidal Lines 

 of the Lune during the 

 Flood of a Neap Tide. 



XIII. Diagram showing Tidal Lines 



of the River Forth. 



XIV. Chart of the River Tay. 

 XV. Chart of the River Ribble. 



XVI. Elevation and plan of Ouse Hydraulic Swing Bridge. 



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