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Excerpt from Report on the Effect of the Chicago Drainage Canal on the Levels of the Great Lakes
Having exhausted all the known and available sources of information in this field, I transferred my Operations to a new and more fertile one - the Library of Parliament. I examined all the annual reports Of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army contained in that institution, numbering over one hundred large volumes, and taking copious notes, as well as many congressional and other public documents of the United States Government, with elaborate memoranda. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
