This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE WATERS. LAND ARTIFICIALLY WON FROM THE WATERS: O, EXCLUSION OF THE SBA BT DIKING; 6, DRAINING OF LAKES AND MARSHES; -', GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCE OF SUCH OPERATIONS--LOWERING OF LAKES--MOUNTAIN LAKES--CLlIfATIC EFFECTS OF DRAINING LAKES AND MARSHES--GEOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE WATERS. LAND ARTIFICIALLY WON FROM THE WATERS: O, EXCLUSION OF THE SBA BT DIKING; 6, DRAINING OF LAKES AND MARSHES; -', GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCE OF SUCH OPERATIONS--LOWERING OF LAKES--MOUNTAIN LAKES--CLlIfATIC EFFECTS OF DRAINING LAKES AND MARSHES--GEOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF AQUEDUCTS, RESERTOIRB, AND CANALS--SURFACE AND UNDERDRAINING, AND THEIR CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL EFFECTS--IRRIGATION AND ITS CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL EFFECTS. INUNDATIONS AND TORRENTS: a, RIVER EMBANKMENTS; i, FLOODS OF THE ARDECHE; C, CRUSHING FORCE OF TORRENTS; d, INUNDATIONS OF 1856 IN FRANCE;, REMEDIES AGAINST INUNDATIONS -- CONSEQUENCES IF IKS NILE HAD BEEN CONFINED BT LATERAL DIKES. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TAL DI CHIANA--IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TtTBCAS UABKMME--OBSTRUCTION OF RIVER MOUTHS--SUBTERRANEAN WATERS--ARTESIAN WELLS--ARTIFICIAL SPRINGS--ECONOMIZING PRECIPITATION. Land artificially won from the Waters. Man, as we have seen, has done much to revolutionize the solid surface of the globe, and to change the distribution and proportions, if not the essential character, of the organisms which inhabit the land and even the waters. Besides the influence thus exerted upon the life which peoples the sea, his action upon the land has involved a certain amount of indirect encroachment upon the territorial jurisdiction of the ocean. So far as he has increased the erosion of running waters by the destruction of the forest, he has promoted the deposit of solid matter in the sea, thus reducing its depth, advancing the coast line, and diminishing the area covered by the waters. He has gone beyond this, and invaded the realm of the ocean by con NATtTBAL CHANGE OF COAST LINE. 331 structing within its borders wharves, piers, lighthouses, ...
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