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You once ashore , ' he writes , ' I shall consider the undertaking as half accomplished . ' He applied at once to Stockholm for arrangements to be made for the Ship of War and at the same time proceeded himself to Gothenburg where he ...
You once ashore , ' he writes , ' I shall consider the undertaking as half accomplished . ' He applied at once to Stockholm for arrangements to be made for the Ship of War and at the same time proceeded himself to Gothenburg where he ...
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Telford and von Platen met on the 8th August , 1808 , and they set out over the line of the canal at once . The rough notebook of this Swedish diary still exists . For six weeks they were travelling and surveying incessantly , except ...
Telford and von Platen met on the 8th August , 1808 , and they set out over the line of the canal at once . The rough notebook of this Swedish diary still exists . For six weeks they were travelling and surveying incessantly , except ...
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Your will easily conceive the perplexity in general as well as for me particularly — the Diet is to be assembled in a month , all is uncertainty , and I have once more the prospect of having spent property , health and quietness in the ...
Your will easily conceive the perplexity in general as well as for me particularly — the Diet is to be assembled in a month , all is uncertainty , and I have once more the prospect of having spent property , health and quietness in the ...
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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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| Title | The Story of Telford: The Rise of Civil Engineering |
| Author | Sir Alexander Gibb |
| Publisher | A. Maclehose & Company, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 357 pages |
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