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... Aqueducts and a Tunnel underground for about a mile , I have just recommended an Iron Aqueduct for the most consider- able . It is approved , and will be executed under my direction , upon a principle entirely new , and which I am ...
... Aqueducts and a Tunnel underground for about a mile , I have just recommended an Iron Aqueduct for the most consider- able . It is approved , and will be executed under my direction , upon a principle entirely new , and which I am ...
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... Aqueduct , and which I thought had been fully under- stood by all parties . Viz : -that it was to be 22 feet wide at the Top and to widen downwards at the rate of one Inch in a foot the length of Piers at the Surface of the ground will ...
... Aqueduct , and which I thought had been fully under- stood by all parties . Viz : -that it was to be 22 feet wide at the Top and to widen downwards at the rate of one Inch in a foot the length of Piers at the Surface of the ground will ...
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... Aqueducts . Icknield Street ( 1828 ) . Calton ( 1829 ) ( iron bridge ) . Rabones Bridge ( iron bridge ) . Pope's Lane ... Aqueduct . Watery Lane . Lee Bridge ( brick skew bridge ) . Don , River Don , Aberdeenshire . Teignmouth Bridge ...
... Aqueducts . Icknield Street ( 1828 ) . Calton ( 1829 ) ( iron bridge ) . Rabones Bridge ( iron bridge ) . Pope's Lane ... Aqueduct . Watery Lane . Lee Bridge ( brick skew bridge ) . Don , River Don , Aberdeenshire . Teignmouth Bridge ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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