Mississippi River Levees And Their Effect On River Stages During Flood Periods PDF Download

Excerpt from Mississippi River Levees and Their Effect on River Stages During Flood Periods: Prepared Under the Directions of Willis L. Moore, Chief U. S. Weather Bureau At the outbreak of the civil war the levees in the Yazoo district were fairly continuous, but of too low grade to offer much protection, except during moderately high water, and by the time hostilities ceased there was little left to show that levees had ever existed. 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.