Report of the Commission of engineers appointed to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi river subject to inundation.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781425512392
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; History / United States / General; United States - General
First sentence: The investigations and surveys conducted by General (then Captain) A. A. Humphreys, between the years 1850 and 1861, and fully elaborated in the report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi, (which constitutes professional paper No. 13 of the Corps of Engineers,) resulted in a definite solution of this problem.