River Training and Control - Being a description of the theory and practice of the modern system entitled The Guide Bank System used in India for the Control and Guidance of Great Alluvial River

of India criticize the proposals for dealing with the embayment at the back of the right guide bank after the 1896 floods—Ignorant attempts to wreck the guide bank system at Sher Shah by the addition to it of swirl-forming spurs—The cause to which the persistency of the river in clinging to the right bank seems ascribable —Summary of the author's recommendtions —The probable discharge of th [...] The completion of the railway to Dhubri including the four bridges—The author settles the waterway of three of the bridges—The effect of the floods of 9o3—Evidence afforded by prebings of the guide banks of the Tista—Evidence afforded by probings at the Sankos and Gangadhar—The application of the guide bank principle to some comparatively small bridges Mahananda guide bank on the Eastern Bengal R [...] The threatened town of Dera Ghazi Khan—Early attempts to keep the river away from the town— The recommendations of the Committee of 1889—The making of the first stone-faced guide bank —The decision to extend the guide bank further up-stream on account of serious encroacment by the main river to the westward—Observations in regard to the guide bank up to the end of 1895—Evidence in regard to th [...] The object of the gauging of the Ganges at Sara--The locality of the Sara gaugings The river slope near the locality of the gaugings—The curves of velocities and depths—A discharge curve deduced for the Sara gaugings—Explanation of an apparent anomaly in discharge figures— Curves of discharge and flood height never alike in unlike situations—'.-Application of the principles set forth in Chapter VI [...] Perhaps the 15.mile stretch of "Barind " along the left bank of the Lower Ganges between Godagari and Rampur Boalia or the high banks of the Indus below Kalabagh or the bluffs demarcating the edges of the high Mr of some of the Punjab doabs may bear some resemblance to the Mississippi bluffs.