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The outer arch stones , or headers , at both the entrance and exit are sloped so as to give the effect of a separate flatter arch springing from a point some feet higher than the main one . The under side of the bridge instead of being ...
The outer arch stones , or headers , at both the entrance and exit are sloped so as to give the effect of a separate flatter arch springing from a point some feet higher than the main one . The under side of the bridge instead of being ...
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this sort , numbers , particularly of his poor countrymen , experienced the frequent effects of his benevolent aid ; for , among other seemingly latent qualities , he ever retained that strong attachment to the land of his birth which ...
this sort , numbers , particularly of his poor countrymen , experienced the frequent effects of his benevolent aid ; for , among other seemingly latent qualities , he ever retained that strong attachment to the land of his birth which ...
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Preliminary Report on the effect that will be produced by the enlargement of the Waterway of London Bridge . ' 7th March , 1823 . Report of Thomas Telford on the effects that will be produced on the River Thames by the rebuilding of ...
Preliminary Report on the effect that will be produced by the enlargement of the Waterway of London Bridge . ' 7th March , 1823 . Report of Thomas Telford on the effects that will be produced on the River Thames by the rebuilding of ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
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