Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Waterways: A History of Inland Navigation Considered as a Branch of Water Conservancy
The subject of the following pages is in reality but a portion of a much larger one - Water Conservancy, or the scientific treatment of all the water received in these islands, a comprehensive definition of which will be found at the commencement of Chapter III., and to the various other branches of which - Fishery, Water Supply, and the Prevention of Floods and of River-pollution - allusion will be occasionally necessary.
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