16 Hydraulics of the Mississippi River. 
Art. II].—Hydraulics of the Report on the Mississippi River of 
Humphreys and Abbot; by Prof. F. A. P. BARNARD.’ 
writer upon the same subject. Dr. Robison, ae ie out 
the extent to which the interests of every civili le are 
involved in questions relating to the control and distribution of 
the running waters of the globe, and the great variety of ways 
in which we are constantly engaged in endeavoring to secure 
such control and distribution, proceeds as follows 
“Such having been our incessant occupations with moving waters, We _ 
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should expect 
facts and ex is, the man of speculative and scientific curiosity, & j 
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siderable progress in the science ; and that the professional engineer would : 
be daily acting from established principle, and be seldom disappointed 10 
ty 3 * 7 i of the * * . . 4 
rflow ; and up Nhe Deepening of the 4 
61. 4to, pp. 456 and exivi 
and Lieut. H. L. A 
