Italian Irrigation: Historical and descriptive.-v. 2. Practical and legislativeBlackwood, 1855 |
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Italian Irrigation: Historical and descriptive.-v. 2. Practical and legislative Richard Baird Smith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
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acres Adda agricultural amount annual appears authorities bank branches breadth bridges canal carried cause century channel charge completed connected considerable construction continued cost course cubic feet cubic foot cultivation derived discharge distribution districts drainage effect employed engineers entire equal escape established estimated executed existing expense extent fall feet per second floods give given head height important improvement increase India influence interest irrigation Italy Jumna kind lake land latter length less locks Lombardy masonry means measures Milan Milanese miles natural navigation Naviglio nearly necessary Northern officers original outlets passed Pavia period Piedmont population portion practical present provinces quantity received reference region regulating returns river season slope soil stream summer supply Ticino tion tract valley various villages volume whole
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Side 435 - is a somewhat costly work, reckoning it only by its paper ; but upon its paper is stamped an amount of knowledge that could scarcely be acquired without the reading of as many books as would cost seven times the price."— Examiner.
Side 309 - Zemindars were thus ministered to, the comfort of travellers was not forgotten; and it is directed, " that on both sides of the canal, down to Hissar, trees of every description, both for shade and blossom, be planted, so as to make it like the canal under the tree...