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I think everybody now agrees that Eads was right, and that the scheme would have been perfectly successful, and would have continued to perform all that was desired of it, if his counsel had been taken.
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Hoar reflects on the importance of following expert advice in engineering projects, specifically regarding the jetties at the Mississippi River.
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