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Excerpt from A Treatise on Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towns: With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as Influencing Supplies of Water, Details of Engines and Pumping Machinery for Raising Wate, and Descriptions of Works Which Have Been Executed for Procuring Water From Wells, Rivers
The last part is devoted to the ¿ow of water in open channels and pipes, and to the subject of gauging the ¿ow of water under various conditions, as in rivers, pipes, and artificial Open channels, also through orifices and over weirs.
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