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at name to receive the superabundant waters of the Nile at the time of overflow, and afterward yield them for prolonged irrigation, was described by Diodorus Siculus (60 B. C.) as existing till his day. The circuit he gives, 3,600 furlongs, is almost incredible. The canal connecting it with the river was 80 furlongs long and 300 feet wide. Sluices commanded the water-way by opening and shutting. The reservoir on Mill River, Mass., which burst with immense damage to life and property, May 16, 1874, was an artificial lake between high hills. The confining dam at the lower end was a stone-wall five and a half feet thick at bottom, three feet at the top, and 25 feet high. This wall was about 300 feet long built of uncut stone from a foundation four feet below the level of the ground at the lower side, and was backed on the upper side with a bank of earth interwoven with branches of trees. The dam had been built eight years at the time of the catastrophe. See dam. 2. An attach