The Western Journal, Volúmenes5-6M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, 1851 |
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... Mississippi and Atlantic railroad , 129 and 332. St. Charles and Iowa , 199. New method of ascending steep grades , 268. Ohio and Mississippi , 332 . Central Railroad of Illinois , 332 . Reading and Study , by E. Stagg , 273 . Libraries ...
... Mississippi and Atlantic railroad , 129 and 332. St. Charles and Iowa , 199. New method of ascending steep grades , 268. Ohio and Mississippi , 332 . Central Railroad of Illinois , 332 . Reading and Study , by E. Stagg , 273 . Libraries ...
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ART . II . - MEMOIR ON THE PHYSICS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER . BY CALEB G. FORSHEY , CIVIL ENGINEER . 1. Rate of Fall . - From the mouth of the river to a point 400 miles up its tortuous channel , * is a distance in a ... Mississippi river .
ART . II . - MEMOIR ON THE PHYSICS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER . BY CALEB G. FORSHEY , CIVIL ENGINEER . 1. Rate of Fall . - From the mouth of the river to a point 400 miles up its tortuous channel , * is a distance in a ... Mississippi river .
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... Mississippi river . A great number of measurements made by myself , from the Balize to Galena , 1,700 miles up the river , give a mean width , including wide places in the bends of about 1000 yards , excluding these 800 yards ; and the ...
... Mississippi river . A great number of measurements made by myself , from the Balize to Galena , 1,700 miles up the river , give a mean width , including wide places in the bends of about 1000 yards , excluding these 800 yards ; and the ...
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... shore may be assumed to cancel each other . Let those who have better observations offer them , I pretend only to approxima tions . on the river , up to the year 1849 , 8 Memoir on the Physics of the Mississippi river .
... shore may be assumed to cancel each other . Let those who have better observations offer them , I pretend only to approxima tions . on the river , up to the year 1849 , 8 Memoir on the Physics of the Mississippi river .
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... Mississippi to bear a proportion in bulk to the whole quantity discharged of one to three thousand . † At this rate ... Mississippi , and be , by my measurements , as above , equal Memoir on the Physics of the Mississippi river . 9.
... Mississippi to bear a proportion in bulk to the whole quantity discharged of one to three thousand . † At this rate ... Mississippi , and be , by my measurements , as above , equal Memoir on the Physics of the Mississippi river . 9.
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