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Excerpt from Water-Powers of North Carolina (a Supplement to Bulletin No. 8) The volume of water flowing in a stream, the run - off or discharge, is expressed in various terms, each of which has become associated with a certain class of work. These terms may be divided into two groups: (1) Those which represent a rate of flow, as second-feet, gallons per minute, miner's inch, and run -_off in second feet per square mile, and (2) those which represent the actual quantity of water, as run-off in depth In inches and. Acre f - oot. They may be defined as follows. Second foot is an abbreviation for cubic foot per second, and IS the quantity of water flowing In a stream one foot wide, one foot deep, at a rate of one foot per Second. It Is generally used as a fundamental unit from which others are computed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.