Report Upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River: Upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and Upon the Deepening of the Mouths ... Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department, 1861

Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Henry L. Abbot

J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1861 - Mississippi River - 440 pages

Contents

• I: 16
• 11: 22
• Office work of the Survey: 28
• THE DELTA OF THE MISSISSIPPI: 34
• 98157: 41
• BASIN OF THE ARKANSAS AND WHITE RIVERS: 43
• MISSOURI BASIN: 55
• OHIO BASIN: 77
• BASINS OF SMALL DIRECT TRIBUTARIES: 90
• CHAPTER III: 184
• METHODS FORMULE ETC IN USE FOR GAUGING RIVERS: 200
• CHAPTER IV: 221
• VELOCITY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CROSSSECTION: 229
• Manner of determining the numerical values of the quantities entering the second member of this equation: 263
• Simplification of the process for practical application: 269
• CHAPTER V: 286
• APPLICATION OF THE NEW LAWS TO THE GAUGING OF RIVERS BY FORMULE: 297
• The formula to be framed by equating expressions for accelerating and retarding forces Algebraic value: 299
• Upon the feeder of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal near Georgetown D C: 305
• Algebraic values of each of the four variables in the resulting general formula: 311
• Table of tests of the several formulæ for mean velocity showing their relative accuracy: 317
• Effect produced upon the surface level of a river by variation in discharge: 323
• CHAPTER VI: 330
• other transferred discharges: 342
• bayous Plaquemine and La Fourche: 359
• ANALYSIS OF PLANS FOR PROTECTION: 373
• The drainage area required was far greater than the topography of the country would allow: 385
• One has already been proved to be erroneous: 391
• Extent and costly character of the work: 397
• Outline of the computation of the increased height of the flood of 1858 with a perfected levee system: 403
• Table of data for the test and its results: 409
• Their effect upon the Rhine: 415
• rivers: 419
• PLANS FOR INCREASING THE DEPTH ON THE BARS: 453
• APPENDIX: 459
• Report of Assistant G G Meade to Captain Talcott xiv: 459
• APPENDIX: 459
• Records of the daily stand of tributaries and bayous: liv
• Tidal observations with selfregistering gauge: lxv
• APPENDIX C: lxxix
• Soundings in tributaries and bayous хс: xc
• Computed dimensions of crosssections of the Mississippi river: xcviii
• Currentmeasurements at temporary stations: civ
• Currentmeasurements upon the Arkansas river at Napoleon by the party of Mr A A Edington: cxii
• Daily discharge per second in cubic feet of the Arkansas river at Napoleon Arkansas: cxviii
• SECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI SWAMP LANDS: cxx
• Observations in 185960 by the party of Mr C A Fuller Ccxxvii: cxxvii

Bibliographic information

• Title: Report Upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River: Upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and Upon the Deepening of the Mouths ... Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War Department, 1861; Issue 13 of Papers of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army; Issue 4 of Professional papers of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, United States Army; Issue 4 of Professional papers
• Authors: Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, Henry L. Abbot
• Publisher: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1861
• Original from: University of Minnesota
• Digitized: Jan 20, 2010
• Length: 440 pages