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Page 75
... passing of news from one side of the country to the other . The putting in hand of all these works would go far to ... passed the same Session and work was started at once under the Highland Roads and Bridges Commissioners and the ...
... passing of news from one side of the country to the other . The putting in hand of all these works would go far to ... passed the same Session and work was started at once under the Highland Roads and Bridges Commissioners and the ...
Page 173
... passed over , carrying it would seem little but Telford's assistants or the con- tractors . The inside passengers were Tierney , Smith , Palmer and Monterloney . W. A. Provis and his brother John joined at Bangor ; Akers , the Mail ...
... passed over , carrying it would seem little but Telford's assistants or the con- tractors . The inside passengers were Tierney , Smith , Palmer and Monterloney . W. A. Provis and his brother John joined at Bangor ; Akers , the Mail ...
Page 254
... passed away many more works have had to be carried out ; and the problem is still the subject of study and disagree- ment . Telford's Scottish connection carried on to the end of his life . He was in Scotland in 1830 , and probably in ...
... passed away many more works have had to be carried out ; and the problem is still the subject of study and disagree- ment . Telford's Scottish connection carried on to the end of his life . He was in Scotland in 1830 , and probably in ...
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Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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