FOOTNOTES:

[1] Min. Proc. Inst. C.E.

[2] Engineering News.

[3] Encyclopædia Britannica.

[4] The paper by Spring—in size it is a book—will repay perusal by engineers engaged on railway bridges over large shifting rivers. London Agents, Constable & Co.

[5] Hydraulics with Working Tables. Spon, 1912.

[6] Irrigation canals are dealt with in Irrigation Works (Spon, 1913).

[7] See also Appendix A.

[8] The regulator runs across the canal head; the under-sluices are a continuation of the weir, between the divide wall and the regulator.

[9] See also Appendix B.

[10] On Indian canals the term “regulation” is applied to the control of the discharge at the regulators or off-take works.

[11] See also Appendix B.

[12] Irrigation Works, Chap. I., Art. 4.

[13] Min. Proc. Inst. C.E., vols. lx. and lxxxv.

[14] Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

[15] Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

[16] Rivers and Canals, Harcourt.

[17] The foundations of piers and abutments should be deep enough to allow of this.

[18] Report on the Revised Estimate, Upper Jhelum Canal.

[19] Revised Estimate of the Upper Jhelum, Upper Chenab, and Lower Bari Doab Canals.

[20] See also Note on p. 161.

[21] The height of a wave is supposed to be 1·4√(fetch), but this allows nothing for splashing.