The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 71National Geographic Society, 1937 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 767
... levee system . It overshadows even the Great Wall of China . More than 2,000 miles of dikes parallel this Father of ... levees have been thrown up , some by local authorities , some by the Army . Into the Mississippi itself there pour ...
... levee system . It overshadows even the Great Wall of China . More than 2,000 miles of dikes parallel this Father of ... levees have been thrown up , some by local authorities , some by the Army . Into the Mississippi itself there pour ...
Page 778
... levees ? No indeed ! French pioneers , founding New Orleans in the cypress swamps of 1718 , soon afterwards built low dikes about three feet high to protect their rude huts from flood . But if three - foot dikes kept early New Orleans ...
... levees ? No indeed ! French pioneers , founding New Orleans in the cypress swamps of 1718 , soon afterwards built low dikes about three feet high to protect their rude huts from flood . But if three - foot dikes kept early New Orleans ...
Page 794
... levees , their spillways and overflow basins that they can control high water below Cairo . There remains the huge problem of the Ohio . All downstream in Wheeling , Parkers- burg , Huntington , Portsmouth , Cincinnati , Lawrenceburg ...
... levees , their spillways and overflow basins that they can control high water below Cairo . There remains the huge problem of the Ohio . All downstream in Wheeling , Parkers- burg , Huntington , Portsmouth , Cincinnati , Lawrenceburg ...
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Along Londons Coronation Route By MAYNARD Owen Williams 609 | v |
Caesars City Today Rome 21 ills in color from naturalcolor photographs by BERNARD | xxviii |
Changing Berlin By DOUGLAS CHANDLER | 131 |
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