Excerpt from Provisional Report Upon the Water-Power of Maine The fourth feature of our system of water-power is the almost universal feasibility, indicated in the Returns, of artificial reser voire, a characteristic of the first importance, as is evident, with reference to the constancy of the power. This characteristic was indeed to be anticipated from the consideration of our rain-fall, which is in all parts largely in excess of evaporation, from the nu evenness of our surface, which afi'ords innumerable receptacles for impounding rain-fall, and from the hardness and impermeability to water of our rocks, which prevent its dispersion and escape by underground percolation. 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.