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The Discharge of the Mississippi River
To ascertain with accuracy the discharge of a large river is at all times a delicate and difficult business. When the stream is of enormous dimensions, when the current is very swift and irregular, when the bed is very rough, the water full of boils, eddies and cross-currents, when the banks and bottom are highly unstable, and are suffering considerable mutations from day to day, then the difficulty of the task is so greatly magnified that engineers who have undertaken such a work have more than once been tempted to give up, in despair of securing even a reasonable approach to precision, and many have abandoned the effort and have been contented with approximations, not pretending to come nearer than within ten per cent. or so of the truth.
The Discharge of the Mississippi River
To ascertain with accuracy the discharge of a large river is at all times a delicate and difficult business. When the stream is of enormous dimensions, when the current is very swift and irregular, when the bed is very rough, the water full of boils, eddies and cross-currents, when the banks and bottom are highly unstable, and are suffering considerable mutations from day to day, then the difficulty of the task is so greatly magnified that engineers who have undertaken such a work have more than once been tempted to give up, in despair of securing even a reasonable approach to precision, and many have abandoned the effort and have been contented with approximations, not pretending to come nearer than within ten per cent. or so of the truth.
The Discharge of the Mississippi River
Starling, William (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 34 ; 347-492
2021-01-01
1461895-01-01 pages
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