Excerpt from Practical River and Canal Engineering: With Frontispiece, Maps, 12 Plates, and 89 Other Illustrations Os late years the attention Of engineers has been called to the permanent improvement Of water-courses as an economical medium for the transport Of heavy goods between industrial centres. It has been proved that a river, though presenting serious Obstacles to navigation, may, by a judicious system Of regulation, be improved SO as to permit Of an extensive traffic being carried on at a much lower cost than the construction Of a canal or railway. 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.