← Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
Chapter 96
The Waters
Chapter IV.
LAND ARTIFICIALLY WON FROM THE WATERS: a, EXCLUSION OF THE SEA BY DIKING; b, DRAINING OF LAKES AND MARSHES; c, GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCE OF SUCH OPERATIONS—LOWERING OF LAKES—MOUNTAIN LAKES—CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF DRAINING LAKES AND MARSHES—GEOGRAPHICAL AND CLIMATIC EFFECTS OF AQUEDUCTS, RESERVOIRS, AND CANALS—SURFACE AND UNDERDRAINING, AND THEIR CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL EFFECTS—IRRIGATION AND ITS CLIMATIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL EFFECTS.
INUNDATIONS AND TORRENTS: a, RIVER EMBANKMENTS; b, FLOODS OF THE ARDÈCHE; c, CRUSHING FORCE OF TORRENTS; d, INUNDATIONS OF 1856 IN FRANCE; e, REMEDIES AGAINST INUNDATIONS—CONSEQUENCES IF THE NILE HAD BEEN CONFINED BY LATERAL DIKES.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE VAL DI CHIANA—IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TUSCAN MAREMME—OBSTRUCTION OF RIVER MOUTHS—SUBTERRANEAN WATERS—ARTESIAN WELLS—ARTIFICIAL SPRINGS—ECONOMIZING PRECIPITATION.