: A dam of 4 feet high, strongly framed and bolted into the rock in the bed of the river above the falls, turns the stream through a canal excavated in the traprock of the bank, into a basin ; whence, through strong guardgates, it supplies in succession three canals on separate planes, each below the other ; giving to the mills on each, a head and fall of about 22 feet.

The garden's elegant ornamental lakes, canals, temples and cascades provide a succession of dramatic eye-catching vistas.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

by H. Bengtson, Stuttgart 1954 that the reign of Antoninus comprised " a succession of grossly wasted opportunities ," given the upheavals that were to come.

These facts were used as an argument against his succession, an oracle having warned Sparta against a " lame reign.

Alexios ' last years were also troubled by anxieties over the succession.

The church ruled that Amalric and Agnes ' children were legitimate and preserved their place in the order of succession.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

The Bill of Rights also stated that the line of succession would go through their descendants, then through Mary's sister Princess Anne, and her descendants, and then to the issue of William III by a later marriage ( if he were to marry again after the death of Mary II ).

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

Four years later, plans drawn up by Chris Bryant were revealed which would end the exclusion of Catholics from the throne and end the doctrine of agnatic ( male-preference ) primogeniture in favour of absolute primogeniture, which governs succession solely on birth order and not on sex .< ref >

Among the original champions of Protestantism who rejected the doctrine of apostolic succession were John Calvin, and Martin Luther.

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

In 1836, exploitation of the " Four-foot Seam " of high-calorific value steam coal began, and pits were sunk in rapid succession.

John Calvin formulated a doctrine of Presbyterianism, which held that in the New Testament the offices of presbyter and episkopos were identical ; he rejected the doctrine of apostolic succession.

Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, the series dealt comically with a number of medieval issues in Britain – witchcraft, Royal succession, European relations, the Crusades and the conflict between the Church and the Crown.

There were to be a succession of discussions about them rejoining the Liberals, but these usually foundered on the issues of free trade and continued support for the National Government.

Sabun's successors were less able than he, and Darfur took advantage of a disputed political succession in 1838 to put its own candidate in power.

Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.

Among the experiments of earlier centuries, scrolls were sometimes unrolled horizontally, as a succession of columns.

However, there were important regional differences in plant succession.

Over the centuries, the Comoro Islands were settled by a succession of diverse groups from the coast of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Indonesia, and Madagascar.

In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.

In 1954, Ike articulated the domino theory in his outlook towards communism in Southeast Asia and also in Central America ; he believed that if the communists were allowed to prevail in Vietnam, this would cause a succession of countries to fall to communism, from Laos through Malaysia and Indonesia ultimately to India.

Consequently, the 16th and 17th centuries were to witness a succession of armed Druze rebellions against the Ottomans, countered by repeated Ottoman punitive expeditions against the Chouf, in which the Druze population of the area was severely depleted and many villages destroyed.

The tradition built by those legends has chosen to recognize just the putative male ancestry as valid for legitimizing his succession, not giving any weight to ties through the said princesses.

These excavations revealed several cities built in succession.

This was preceded by a succession of timber bridges ; the first was built by the Roman founders of London.

One exception to this succession was David Durell, who built up the reputation and academic success of the College.

Renowned architects, such as Carl Theodor Severin, students of the two old masters of Classicist architecture, Carl Gotthard Langhans and Friedrich Gilly, and Johann Christoph von Seydewitz built in rapid succession in the pure Classicist style: the guest house ( Logierhaus ), the parlour building ( Salongebäude ) with its prestigious ballroom in the Empire style, the Prince's Palace ( Prinzenpalais ), the Stahlbad bathing house, several town houses and the critically acclaimed Chinese-style pavilions, including the gem of garden architecture, the so-called Kamp.

These were often built in limestone with ornate façades in a succession of architectural styles.

In quick succession, the laboratory designed and built Chicago Pile 3, the world's first heavy-water moderated reactor, and the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, built in Idaho, which lit a string of four light bulbs to produce the world's first nuclear-generated electricity in 1951.

On this high point, a monastery and a succession of churches were built, each larger than the last to accommodate the growing number of religious worshippers.

Ashurbanipal grew up in the small palace called bit reduti ( house of succession ), built by his grandfather Sennacherib when he was crown prince in the northern quadrant of Nineveh.

Geologically the town developed on a succession of non parallel terraces, rising from the level ground around the Royal Canal ( previously named the royal military canal ) towards the steep incline upon which the parish church of St Leonard was built.

It was based on a succession of Opel designs throughout its production life, during which it was built in three incarnations.

A succession of storms built banks of sand and boulders that eventually closed off the sea entrance.

A succession of storms had built up large shingle banks to block the outlet of Loch Spynie to the sea.

Late in his life, Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia was confronted with the problem of his succession ; if he did not explicitly name an heir before he died, the nation he had built would likely dissolve into civil war and be devoured by European colonial powers.

This is because the new government of the Star Kingdom is venial and corrupt and eventually through a succession of systematic slights, disgusts an alliance of small powers Manticore had built up to oppose the Haven Behemoth threatening each member state of the alliance — which that government also further antagonizes leading to much further and greater loss of life.

Named after a famous breed of fighting bull, the V-10 Gallardo has been Lamborghini's sales leader and stable-mate to a succession of V-12 flagship models — first to the Lamborghini Murciélago ( 4, 099 built between 2001 and 2011 ), then to the current flagship Lamborghini Aventador.

The church itself that is above the catacombs was built in the 1850s for a German Baptist congregation, an example of ethnic succession.

Following a succession of trials, the prototype was used as a " plug " from which copies of the boat could be built using glass-reinforced plastic construction.

Whilst a war of succession plays out, the visitor becomes secretary, then recorder ; and travels to the edge of the world to meet Leviathan, an immemorial creature who built the world to shelter his sleep from the heaven stones.

The area is an earthquake zone and the city was built and rebuilt by a succession of Spartans, Phrygians, Ionians, Lydians, Persians and Ancient Romans.

Carlo Lualdi had previously used this rotor system in his experimental Lualdi-Tassotti ES 53 and with his new company now built a succession of more powerful helicopters incorporating the Rotor-Matic system with a gyro stabiliser of his own design.

Father Gaspar Frutuoso would later note that the church was one of a succession of churches to be formally built in each of the parishes on the island ( following those of Horta, Feteira and Flamengos ).

When a succession of images have been built up over several visits, small changes at the back of the eye can be more easily detected.