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Excerpt from Miscellaneous Scientific Papers: By W. J. Macquorn Rankine
Paper No. XXXIV., On the Design and Construction of Masonry Dams, originally consisted of a report to the municipality of Bombay, made in 1870, in reference to proposed extensions of the water-works there, and was afterwards published in The Engineer. 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.
