IN NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 498, some particulars are given of measurements made in 1871 and 1872 of the water flowing past in the Elbe at the boundary between Saxony and Bohemia. The river basin in ...

DESSAU, Germany — It came from the heavens with thunder and lightning and a deluge of biblical proportions. Much as one would imagine a miracle, the rescue of the Elbe River--which had been creeping ...