Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lecture on the Subject of the Levees: Read Before the New Orleans Academy of Sciences; January 16, 1872
A live-foot rise above would send out square feet to of river section. Or thirty - seven per cent. Of sixty inches, and reduce the flood below about twenty-two inches.
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