"Gravelling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... water, was put in. 1875 and 1876 proved unfavorable and not much could be done, when the works were stopped. They were resumed in 1879, and the dam as also the slide successfully completed, with the exception of graveling of the dam in the fall of 1881. The water was lower that summer than it had been for thirty five years before. The canal was completed and opened for navigation ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various |
