Note 362 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
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In the case of rivers flowing through wide alluvial plains and much inclined to shift their beds, like the Po, the embankments often leave a very wide space between them. The dikes of the Po are sometimes three or four miles apart.—Baumgarten, after Lombardini, Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, 1847, 1er sémestre, p. 149.