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... Common drudges - here as well as other places - Born to command ten thousand Slaves like you . This is too much , but at the same time it is too true , for I find the workmen here to be more ignorant than they are in Eskdale - there's ...
... Common drudges - here as well as other places - Born to command ten thousand Slaves like you . This is too much , but at the same time it is too true , for I find the workmen here to be more ignorant than they are in Eskdale - there's ...
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... common apprehensions - To take up and manage the Water of a fine Island - is likely a fairy tale — and if properly conducted may prove the means of rendering it a Jewell among the Nations , but of this more bye and bye - we have now ...
... common apprehensions - To take up and manage the Water of a fine Island - is likely a fairy tale — and if properly conducted may prove the means of rendering it a Jewell among the Nations , but of this more bye and bye - we have now ...
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... common and particularly has fixed his Gracious attention upon the first of all these performances the Caledonian Canal and his Chief ; known by several publica- tions about his work not unknown in Sweden . This is the reason Sir why I ...
... common and particularly has fixed his Gracious attention upon the first of all these performances the Caledonian Canal and his Chief ; known by several publica- tions about his work not unknown in Sweden . This is the reason Sir why I ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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