Italian Irrigation: A Report on the Agricultural Canals of Piedmont and Lombardy, Volume 2Blackwood, 1855 - Irrigation |
Other editions - View all
Italian Irrigation: A Report on the Agricultural Canals of Piedmont and Lombardy Richard Baird Smith No preview available - 2023 |
Italian Irrigation: A Report on the Agricultural Canals of ..., Volume 1 Richard Baird Smith No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
according acre administration agriculture amount applied arrangements associations authority bound canals carried cause channels congregation connected constructed continued course cubic cubic feet cubic foot cultivation delegation discharge distance distribution districts drainage effect employed employers engineer entire equal established estimate executed existing expense extent fixed give given Government grants head important inches India injury interests irrigation Italy kind land latter legislation limits localities Lombardy maintain meadow means measure Milan nature nearly necessary Northern object observed obtained opening original outlets parties period Piedmont possession practice prescribed present principle produce proprietors provinces provisions published quantity of water referred regards regulations repairs respective rice right of passage rivers rotation royal rules soil springs statutes streams sufficient supply tion volume water-courses winter
Popular passages
Page 368 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Page 365 - PAUL. Analysis and Critical Interpretation of the Hebrew Text of the Book of Genesis. Preceded by a Hebrew Grammar, and Dissertations on the Genuineness of the Pentateuch, and on the Structure of the Hebrew Language.
Page 364 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Page 370 - YULE. Fortification : for the Use of Officers in the Army, and Readers of Military History. By Col. YULE, Bengal Engineers. 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, IDB. fid. from letters sent home from South Africa, India, and China, 1856-1882. By Surgeon-General A. GRAHAM YOUNG, Author of 'Crimean Cracks.
Page 367 - STEPHENS. The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, FieldWorker, and Cattleman.
Page 369 - Edition, 5s. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LYRIC POETRY AND MUSIC OF SCOTLAND. By WILLIAM STENHOUSE. Originally compiled to accompany the ' Scots Musical Museum,' and now published separately, with Additional Notes and Illustrations. Svo, 7s. 6d. PROFESSOR WILSON'S POEMS. Containing the 'Isle of Palms,' the 'City of the Plague,' 'Unimore,
Page 369 - Welcome, right welcome, Christopher North; we cordially greet thee in thy new dress, thou genial and hearty old man, whose ' Ambrosian nights ' have so often in imagination transported us from solitude to the social circle, and whose vivid pictures of flood and fell, of loch and glen, have carried us in thought from the smoke, din, and pent-up opulence of London, to the rushing stream or tranquil tarn of those mountain ranges,
Page 362 - Plates, Maps and Plans of all the important Countries and Localities referred to by Classical Authors, constructed from the best materials, and embodying the results of the most recent investigations, accompanii'd by a complete Index of Places, in which the proper quantities of the Syllables are marked by T.
Page 370 - A vindication, in beautiful prose, of the ' ways of God to Man.' A grander moral is not to be found than that which dwells upon the reader's mind when the book is closed — conveyed, too, as it is, in language as masculine and eloquent as any the English tongue can furnish.
Page 356 - AYTOUN. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By W. EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN, DCL, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Twenty-eighth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 7s. 6d. An Illustrated Edition of the Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers.