A Treatise on Rivers and Torrents: With the Method of Regulating Their Course and Channels, Issue 27 |
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acceleration Adda angle Arno banks Bastia beds of rivers Benedictine Canal body of water Bologna Bolognese bottom breadth carry gravels caused Centonara chapter common horizontal confluence considerable course declivity deposits dikes diminish distance drains elevated embankments entrance equal Eustace Manfredi excavations experiments fall Father Grandi feet Ferrara floods flow force formed friction Gaiana Genneté gravels greater Guglielmini happen height higher horizontal line drawn hydrometry Idice impetuosity inches per mile increased junction Lavino less Lombardy Longastrino lower motion mountains mouth nature navigable canal nearly observed obstruction Ombrone opening Panaro Panfilia particles present Primaro principal proportion Quaderna quantity of water raised reach recipient reduced regurgitation Reno Romagna running waters Samoggia sands Santerno Savena sections sediments Senio sensible Sillaro slope sluice space square roots stones and gravels substances sufficient surface Tesino Teverone Tiber tion tributary tributary streams trunk united waters valley velocity vessel Viviani wheel whole Zendrini