Treatise on rivers and torrents : with the method of regulating their course and channels / by Paul Frisi.
By: Frisi, Paolo.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : John Weale, 1861Edition: New edition, corrected.Description: xxiv, 226 pages, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.Other title: Del modo di regolari i fiumi, e torrenti | Rivers and torrents [Cover title].Subject(s): RIVERS | CANALS | ALLUVIUM | EROSION | FLOODS | GEOMORPHOLOGY | RAINFALL | PANAMA CANALHoldings: GRETA POINT: 551.311.21 FRIItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOK | WELLINGTON BOOKS | 551.311.21 FRI | 1 | Available | Not for interloan | B021973 |
"To which is added, An essay on navigable canals."
"Translated by Major-General John Garstin."
Includes index.
BOOK THE FIRST: OF RIVERS AND TORRENTS THAT FLOW OVER GRAVEL -- Chapter I. On the origin of rivers, and the causes and phenomena of their floods -- Chapter II. On the substance brought down by rivers -- Chapter III. On the first trunks of rivers and torrents -- Chapter IV. On the rectification of the upper beds of rivers -- Chapter V. On the formation of the upper beds of rivers -- BOOK THE SECOND: ON THE VELOCITIES AND SLOPES OF RIVERS -- Chapter I. Of the velocities with which water flows out of vessels -- Chapter II. On the velocities of single rivers -- Chapter III. On the velocities of the waters in artificial canals -- Chapter IV. On the velocities of rivers, united and divided -- Chapter V. On the slopes or declivities of rivers -- Chapter VI. Of the slopes in the last trunks of rivers -- Chapter VII. On the distribution of the slopes of rivers -- BOOK THE THIRD: ON RIVERS THAT CARRY SANDS AND MUD -- Chapter I. On the old beds of rivers -- Chapter II. On the new beds of rivers -- Chapter III. On the resistances opposed to rivers -- Chapter IV. On the regurgitation, or backwater, of rivers -- Chapter V. On the entrances of rivers into the sea -- Essays on navigable canals -- Paragraphs I.-XIII. Canals executed, or proposed, before the intervention of locks -- Paragraphs XIV.-XXXVIII. Canals executed, or proposed, after the intervention of locks -- Paragraphs XXXIX.-LXIII. First principles, and rules, in the construction of canals.
GRETA POINT: 551.311.21 FRI
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