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The fourth feature of our system of water-power is the almost universal feasibility, indicated in the Returns, of artificial reser voire, a characteristic of the first importance, as is evident, with reference to the constancy of the power. This characteristic was indeed to be anticipated from the consideration of our rain-fall, which is in all parts largely in excess of evaporation, from the nu evenness of our surface, which afi'ords innumerable receptacles for impounding rain-fall, and from the hardness and impermeability to water of our rocks, which prevent its dispersion and escape by underground percolation.
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Patricia Wells and Walter Wells have lived in Paris for nearly thirty years. Patricia runs a popular cooking school in Paris and Provence, and is the author of ten previous books. From 1980 to 2007 she was restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune. Walter retired as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in 2005, having previously worked as editor and managing editor since 1980. He is one of the few non-French citizens to be awarded the French Legion of Honor.
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