Water and water-supply chiefly in reference to the British Islands. Surface waters / by D.T. Ansted.

  • David T. Ansted
Date:
1878
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Credit: Water and water-supply chiefly in reference to the British Islands. Surface waters / by D.T. Ansted. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P BE J? ACE. VI] more complete and more accurate history of a part of the great subject of water than has hitherto been attempted. I have avoided, as much as possible, the expression of opinion, and especially of dogmatic statement. Tf in some not unimportant cases, I have ventured to differ from men whose authority is deservedly high, I desire only that the evidence on both sides should be fairly weighed, and the truth brought out. In the present volume the properties of water and the distribution of surface water are considered, and I have devoted much space to a description of the various river systems, as well subordinate as principal, throughout the British Islands. I hope in a second Part to describe the phenomena of underground waters, and lo give some account of water-supply. D. T. ANSTED. 1 Princes Street, Storey's Gate, Westminster, August 1878. Errors of various kinds have already been detected in names and figures, during the progress of the work through the press, but too late for correction. Others, no doubt, exist, that have not yet been found out. To any friends, who will be kind enough to inform me of such errors, I shall be extremely grateful, as in the event of a second edition being called for, I may be able to present to the world a more useful and trustworthy account than I am hero able to offer. D. T. A.
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