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... hand at the moment . He had already progressed far from the mason's apprentice . His old friends at Langholm would hardly have known him . He was beginning to take a prominent and accepted part in the town's activities . He still found ...
... hand at the moment . He had already progressed far from the mason's apprentice . His old friends at Langholm would hardly have known him . He was beginning to take a prominent and accepted part in the town's activities . He still found ...
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... hand and completed by or before 1813. The success of the new fishing port was immediate . It became , in fact , all too congested , and to complete the story , in 1822 , Joseph Mitchell was instructed , under Telford , to make a survey ...
... hand and completed by or before 1813. The success of the new fishing port was immediate . It became , in fact , all too congested , and to complete the story , in 1822 , Joseph Mitchell was instructed , under Telford , to make a survey ...
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... hands of the railway engineers ; and per- haps inevitably , but to some extent for want of sym- pathy or encouragement on the part of the Institution of Civil Engineers , there came the founding in the ' forties of the Institution of ...
... hands of the railway engineers ; and per- haps inevitably , but to some extent for want of sym- pathy or encouragement on the part of the Institution of Civil Engineers , there came the founding in the ' forties of the Institution of ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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