Word: streams
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...southern California and along the Rio Grande irrigation is carried on very scientifically and advantageously. The method used at present is to tap a stream up in the mountains; water is led off by long canals down into the valleys, and each farmer in turn taps the canal to irrigate his land. The laterals are at times but 100 feet apart, and the water flowing through them moistens all the intervening ground...
July 21, 1871, Connecticut river, Springfield, Mass., three miles down stream; Agricultural, 16.46 1-2; Harvard, 17.23 1-2; Yale...
July 21, 1855. Connecticut River, Springfield, Mass., one and a-half miles down stream and back, Iris, Harvard, (eight oared parges), 22m; Y. Y., Harvard (four-oared barge), 22.03; Nereid-Yale, (six oared) 23.38: Nautilus-Yale, (six-oared...
...Australia," by Mr. F. C. Sumichrast of the French department in the college. The piece is profusely illustrated throughout. "Sports, Pastimes, and Pleasures on the Cam, ' tells of the surroundings of the river flowing by the old university city of Cambridge, and some of the races on the stream are vividly described. "The Pleasure of Fly Fishing" is an entertaining article from beginning to end. It tells well the varied experience of the many who have enjoyed a summer of this beguiling sport. The number closes with the usual monthly athletic record...
During the summer, Princeton is to send out a scientific expedition, on a ship furnished by the United States government, to investigate the current between the gulf stream and New England...