Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . Outre, and the SouthPass—the first carrying out about 50per cent, of its water, the second 40 percent., and the third 10 per cent. Thereis a bar at the mouth of each pass, andeach has a channel through which largevessels may pass. This channel is about1,200 feet wide and 50 feet deep in thelarge passes, and 600 feet wide and 35feet deep in the small one. The swiftand concentrated current keeps the chan-nel open, but the bar is continuallyspreading outward, and as it thusspreads t
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . Outre, and the SouthPass—the first carrying out about 50per cent, of its water, the second 40 percent., and the third 10 per cent. Thereis a bar at the mouth of each pass, andeach has a channel through which largevessels may pass. This channel is about1,200 feet wide and 50 feet deep in thelarge passes, and 600 feet wide and 35feet deep in the small one. The swiftand concentrated current keeps the chan-nel open, but the bar is continuallyspreading outward, and as it thusspreads the water excavates a channelthrough it, though not of a uniform depthor width. Thus, a frequent dredging ofthe beginning of July, 1874, he completed the channel was necessary to prevent thetlie magnificent iron railroad bridge across continual grounding of vessels upon Mississippi at St. Louis. Then he Captain Eads was the first to suggestpressed upon the attention of the govern- that this laborious and expensive dredg-ment his plan for improving the naviga- ing process might be done away with by ,172. JAMBS BDOHANAN EADS. EABS—EAGLE the use of jetties. He reasoned that if in the Gulf. Five and a half million cubic the banks of the passage through the bar yards of earth had been removed, mainly could be extended, not gradually, but by the action of the strong current immediately, into the deep water of the created by the jetty. In the construc-
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