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... Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond ‡ o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending through the lands . So rais'd by Heav'n o'er bustling men , Far round thy glance was thrown With ...
... Nature was design'd . For as Ben Lomond ‡ o'er our hills , In towering grandeur stands , And lochs and rivers sees like rills , Descending through the lands . So rais'd by Heav'n o'er bustling men , Far round thy glance was thrown With ...
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... nature of the soil , and the quality of the materials having now been sufficiently proved for the purpose of determining the precise situation , forms , dimensions and value of each sort of work , it would be a great satisfaction to my ...
... nature of the soil , and the quality of the materials having now been sufficiently proved for the purpose of determining the precise situation , forms , dimensions and value of each sort of work , it would be a great satisfaction to my ...
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... nature , commenced , or which may hereafter be com- menced under the authority of Parliament , etc. " " 2 The Act was passed in 1817. It was the work of Vansittart , then Chancellor of the Exchequer , and as Telford says , ' able to ...
... nature , commenced , or which may hereafter be com- menced under the authority of Parliament , etc. " " 2 The Act was passed in 1817. It was the work of Vansittart , then Chancellor of the Exchequer , and as Telford says , ' able to ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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