id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
26052	How, Louis	James B. Eads			.txt	text/plain	21929	851	68	For some hundreds of miles the crookedest of great rivers, it varies frequently in width and velocity and is full of shoals; then for hundreds more, though uniform in width, it often rises higher than its shores, and is confined in artificial levees, which it continually breaks down. Besides the frequent voyages which he was ordered to take for the sake of his health,--and which, as he was a very bad sailor, he said were real medicine,--he was in demand here and there, in places miles apart, for professional services; and then, too, he visited many engineering works in various remote lands,--river improvements, docks, the Suez Canal.	cache/26052.txt	txt/26052.txt
