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Skriven 2013-11-05 21:17:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: infos 411
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-03-13  01:44 <=-

 ML>> Water Street though not being very informative.
 NB>> No, but one runs out of informative names faster than one runs out of
 NB>> little streets to be named... ;)
 ML> That's why you name things after your kids!

If you have any...  ;)

 ML> In Salem MA, Valley Way runs along the ridgetop.

Hmmm... the way to see the valley, maybe...?  :)
 
 ML>> in Boston. Milton St. in Cambridge never went to Milton
 ML>> nor near it.
 NB>> In Cambridge it's probably named for the poet...

 ML> Though there are Longfellow things, cultural figures in
 ML> Cambridge take back seat to 19th century captains of industry
 ML> and commerce. The city government has a list of streets for
 ML> which the name origins are known; neither Milton nor Russell
 ML> (see below) is on it.

Maybe they are from an earlier age than from their recorded origins...
or they've never heard of John Milton... or wish to be thought not to
know... ;)

 ML> Interestingly, the street next to Milton St. in Cambridge
 ML> is Russell St.

Maybe they were brothers, of many many years ago, now lost in
antiquity...  ;)

 NB>> Part of what makes the river not too navigable is that it has a number
 NB>> of falls along the way... great for setting up grist and flour mills,
 NB>> not so great for getting places without regular portages..  :) 
 ML> Falls don't usually happen where the water is deep, though.

Well, perhaps not... certainly there's a difference, often quite a lot,
between the two surfaces... the sort of difference that the canal used
locks to compensate for...  :)
 
 ML>> I am surprised there's no easy lookup for the volume of rivers.
 NB>> Makes some sense... the volume of a river changes a lot more with time
 NB>> of year and rainfall or lack thereof than that of a lake (especially a
 NB>> larger lake) does... Quite the difference for a river between flood
 NB>> stage and drought time... even the Pond isn't that much affected,
 NB>> although it can be lower or higher at times... 

 ML> But the mean high and low waters are well documented for all
 ML> navigable and some nonnavigable waterways, and from these,
 ML> we can calculate the capacities without too much trouble.

Dunno...  never really thought that much on it...  the fact that there
isn't an easy lookup makes me wonder how easy/hard the calculations
would be... even knowing mean high and low...  just seems like a lot
more would be variable in the calculations...

 ML>> More's the pity that there isn't one now. What fun that would be,
 ML>> to ride the trolley down to the big water.
 NB>> Quite true.  It was the highlight of the week, so I've read... :)

 ML> Might still be, were people not so jaded.

Or thinking they need instant gratification...

ttyl      neb

... If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits? E.Bombeck

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