ing the past few years of the necess-A ood deal has been heard durity for harnessing Great Britain's water power for industrial purposes. "On the face of it, Scotland offered the best prospects of attaining the desired end, thanks to her hills and waterfalls, but there seems an objection—perhaps not unnatural—for industry to berake itself to what must seem to those living in populous centres asa kind of wilderness, Accordingly we find the "Daily Mail" calling for attempt to harness the Thanies and so provide energy for indust at a point where the population already is thickest. At first glance the scheme seems perfectly sound. and doubtless before the coal and oil of the world are depleted it will be found possible to carry it out. But up to the present the -conservancy engineer—we are talking generally, not referring to any particular one—has proved the stumbling block. He points out that as soon as a river is tampered with, it changes its course. Erect a dam, or some other work ata given point, and the tendency is for s'It to accumulate there and render of no avail. This is why the immense power in the tides of the ocean have never been brought into the service of man. With waterfalls and rapids the conditions are different, but looking to the experience of conservancy experts the world over, we can see that some way has yet to be travelled before the river scheme can be described as practicable.
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