Beschreibung
E. & F. N. Spon, London, 1906, 384 Seiten mit zahlreichen Tabellen und 18 Falttafeln, teils Kartenskizzen. Gebunden Leinen.
Hydraulic and other tables - On rivers and flow from large districts with preliminary remarks on springs, percolation and wells; also with the discharge of sewers and matters incidental thereto; and characteristics of some the rivers of Europe etc. - Tides of the sea, estuaries, and tidal rivers with tables of docks etc. - Rainfall and evaporation with tables of rainfall and distribution of rain etc. (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain and other stations) - Index to plates - Tide Chart of the Irish Channel, shewing lines of equal range at new and full moon - Tide Chart of the Irish Channel, chewing the set and rate of the flood stream - Sketch of the course of the 7 o'clock stream of tide in the English Channel, at new and full moon - Sketch of the course of the 7 o'clock stream of tide in the Irish Channel, at new and full moon - Sketch of English Channel, showing direction and velocity of tidal currents, with rising tide at 1, 3, and 5 hours before high-water - Sketch of do., with falling tide, do.; also in each plate a diagram of the form of tidal wave between the Scilly Islands and the Humber, at each hour before and after low water - Map of the World, chewing cotidal and isothermal lines - River Mersey — Longitudinal Section, with diagram of tidal wave from simultaneous observations, chewing surface of water when high and low water at various points, between Formby Point and Warrington, with cross sections of the bed in 1822 and 1857 - River Severn — Section shewing line of high and low water, and flood levels, also cross sections, with borings in the bed of the river to ascertain the substrata - River Avon — Plan and section, chewing bed and surface lines of high and low waters at spring and neap tides - River Tyne — Diagram of surface of river when high and low water during a spring tide, at Newburn, Newcastle, and Tynemouth - River Nene — Diagram shewing surface of river when high and low water at Wisbech, during a spring tide - River Thames — Section of River showing surface of high and low water, and river beds of 1822 and 1857, with Captain Burstall's cross sections of 1857 - River Clyde — Section showing bed in 1758, 1824, 1853, and 1862, with tidal lines - Rivers Seine, Garonne and Gironde — Diagrams showing simultaneous surface lines of the spring tides - River Po — Map and section, with detailed plan of dykes and drains, also section of river from the Alps to the Adriatic - Rivers Adige, Reno, and Po — Longitudinal sections with surface lines in high floods, level of plain, banks, and bed; also diagrams of discharge, rainfall and temperature for the Po, Adds, Seine and Tiber - River Nile — Diagram of rise and fall at the Nilometer, Cairo, and at Khartoum, with rainfall of parallel latitudes; also sections of the Nile in the Delta and near Shout, with flood and low water levels ; also borings shewing strata of Nile deposits, and level of underground water - River Hoogly — Diagram of one year's spring and neap tides, shewing effects of floods on the tides; also sketches of shoals in the Ganges, and sections of the river; also curves of spring and neap tides of the Thames, taken simultaneously at various points between Cadogan Pier and Mucking Light - Tidal Curves of spring and neap tides, of the Tyne, Humber, Waveney, Dover, Seine, Severn, Avon, and Mersey - Tidal Curves of abnormal tides at Southampton, Cardigan and Portland, shewing how they are affected by their embayed position.
